Re: User-facing aspects of serializable transactions

Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com> wrote:
> This approach allowed MSSQL to "clean up" on TPCE; to date their 
> performance on that benchmark is so much better than anyone else
> nobody else wants to publish.
Since they use a "compatibility level" setting to control whether a
request for a serializable transaction gives you snapshot isolation or
a true serializable transaction, you have to be careful interpreting
results like that.  Are you sure which one they used for this
benchmark?
-Kevin