Comments on: OpenMind 2007: Monty on the Future (and Past) of Databases http://zak.greant.com/openmind-2007-monty-on-the-future-and-past-of-databases/ Zak Greant's Blog Tue, 05 Jan 2010 01:32:25 +0000 hourly 1 By: Polymorph: Conference Report: OpenMind & MindTrek 2007 http://zak.greant.com/openmind-2007-monty-on-the-future-and-past-of-databases/comment-page-1/#comment-399 Polymorph: Conference Report: OpenMind & MindTrek 2007 Thu, 11 Oct 2007 19:10:35 +0000 http://zak.greant.com.php5-6.websitetestlink.com/?p=417#comment-399 [...] Monty on the Future of DBMS [...] [...] Monty on the Future of DBMS [...]

]]> By: Lukas http://zak.greant.com/openmind-2007-monty-on-the-future-and-past-of-databases/comment-page-1/#comment-398 Lukas Tue, 02 Oct 2007 20:59:58 +0000 http://zak.greant.com.php5-6.websitetestlink.com/?p=417#comment-398 Ok, the Oracle Database flagship product does indeed not support transactional DDL. There is only a niche product Oracle bought from DEC that runs on OpenVMS that does support it. Yawn. Go PostgreSQL :) Ok, the Oracle Database flagship product does indeed not support transactional DDL. There is only a niche product Oracle bought from DEC that runs on OpenVMS that does support it. Yawn. Go PostgreSQL :)

]]> By: Lukas http://zak.greant.com/openmind-2007-monty-on-the-future-and-past-of-databases/comment-page-1/#comment-397 Lukas Tue, 02 Oct 2007 14:20:56 +0000 http://zak.greant.com.php5-6.websitetestlink.com/?p=417#comment-397 Well someone in my blog just posted (http://pooteeweet.org/blog/882/883) that Oracle indeed supports rollback for transactions. I will try to figure out what the deal is here .. Well someone in my blog just posted (http://pooteeweet.org/blog/882/883) that Oracle indeed supports rollback for transactions. I will try to figure out what the deal is here ..

]]> By: Zak Greant http://zak.greant.com/openmind-2007-monty-on-the-future-and-past-of-databases/comment-page-1/#comment-396 Zak Greant Tue, 02 Oct 2007 13:40:28 +0000 http://zak.greant.com.php5-6.websitetestlink.com/?p=417#comment-396 Hey Lukas, Thanks for the counter-post. I'll let Monty speak for himself (or correct my notes :) As for the feature gaffe, the Oracle marketing machine must have gotten to Monty. ;P Cheers! --zak Hey Lukas,

Thanks for the counter-post. I’ll let Monty speak for himself (or correct my notes :)

As for the feature gaffe, the Oracle marketing machine must have gotten to Monty. ;P

Cheers!
–zak

]]> By: Lukas http://zak.greant.com/openmind-2007-monty-on-the-future-and-past-of-databases/comment-page-1/#comment-395 Lukas Tue, 02 Oct 2007 13:26:26 +0000 http://zak.greant.com.php5-6.websitetestlink.com/?p=417#comment-395 I stumbled a bit over "They can react quickly, because FLOSS DBMS focus on serving users first and worrying about standards, marketing and so on afterwards." I wrote up my thoughts on this topic over here: http://pooteeweet.org/blog/882 I also noted that AFAIK Oracle does not support transactional DDL, but PostgreSQL does! I stumbled a bit over “They can react quickly, because FLOSS DBMS focus on serving users first and worrying about standards, marketing and so on afterwards.” I wrote up my thoughts on this topic over here:
http://pooteeweet.org/blog/882

I also noted that AFAIK Oracle does not support transactional DDL, but PostgreSQL does!

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