Subject Re: [firebird-support] Dirty read?
Author Ann W. Harrison
At 09:41 AM 6/4/2004, johnsparrowuk wrote:
>Is it possible to dirty-read uncommitted data in Firebird?? (I don't
>think it is, but someone might prove me wrong!)

The system transaction can see all versions. User transactions
can't. The system transaction also has enough context to make
one transaction wait for another to finish, which user code does
not. Without the one, the other is of no great value.


Regards,

Ann
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