I don't normally spend much time worrying about our competitors. I figure keeping the customers happy is a better use of my time. But no...

Remember the performance tuning we've been doing? Well, the powers that be sat up and took notice too. I think the phrase was 'more ...

We managed to gloss over a few important points during the discussion on Isolation . Let's dig into them here. How can you ensure isolat...

D is for Dog, Design and Durability, i.e., the effects of a committed transaction are never lost (except by a catastrophic failure). The dur...

I is for Iguana, Igloo and Isolation, i.e., intermediate states produced while a transaction is executing are not visible to others. Further...

C is for Crayon, Cup and Consistency, i.e., transactions produce consistent results and preserve application specific invariants. A transact...

We've already covered some of this in previous postings, but in the next four entries let's explicitly look at all ACID properties. ...