Wednesday, November 10, 2004

TheServerSide.com - ACID is Good. Take it in Short Doses

TheServerSide.com - ACID is Good. Take it in Short Doses

This article points out that you cannot do ACID transactions that last a long period of time. But what if you had a series of smaller ACID transactions that were encapsulated in larger ones all the way up to the least granular level. Of course, you would need to provide an extra aspect: resolution. The rollback/commit tragedy is that you must do one or the other but not both. It would be nice to have a mode where instead of doing either you have a third way to deal with transactions.... or maybe I'm just crazy for thinking it could be done....

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