On Tue, 10 Feb 2004, Rodrigo wrote:
> Shridhar Daithankar wrote:
> > Just stumbled upon this. just an FYI,
> >
> > http://www.microsoft.com/sql/yukon/productinfo/top30features.asp
> >
> > Shridhar
>
> From the page:
>
> > A new Snapshot Isolation (SI) level will be provided at the
> > database level. With SI, users will be able to access the
> > last committed row using a transitionally consistent view
> > of the database. This capability will provide greater
> > scalability for very large database (VLDB) implementations.
>
> Is Snapshot Isolation == MVCC ?
I think it goes that MVCC is a kind of snap shot, but snap shotting could
be provided by more ways than just MVCC.
But I'm not 100% certain on that.