Re: (not entirely...) OT: OPINION... chicken entrails, runic stones, and crystal balls... WAS CoBOL moved to OO

From: Doug Scott (dwscott_at_ieee.org)
Date: 01/06/04 

Date: Tue, 06 Jan 2004 18:32:07 GMT

Pierra,

> My "problem" is not with the Commit verb. My "problem" is not being
> able to "roll back" committed transactions to a point in time. And that
> is a "feature" of "modern" database systems.

Sure; if your company is willing to put up with the cost of journalising
every transaction all the time, that's fine. You must be in the financial
services area, where money is like water :-) 

---
Doug
dwscott@ieee.org

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