Re: Alter/update large tables - VERRRY annoying behaviour!

It's sad replying to my own question [of sorts] but...

On Mon, 15 Apr 2002, Nigel J. Andrews wrote:
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> On Mon, 15 Apr 2002, Dmitry Tkach wrote:
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> > Neil Conway wrote:
> >
> >>  On Mon, 15 Apr 2002 13:07:20 -0400
> >> "Dmitry Tkach" <dmitry@openratings.com> wrote:
> >
> >>>  First of all, a question for you - is ANY update to a table equivalent (in
> this respect) to a delete+insert?
> >
> >>  Yes, AFAIK -- MVCC requires this.
> >
> > What's MVCC?
>
> Funny, I was about to ask that question. Something about variable size of
> fields in the physical storage?

I've remembered, alsmot: Multi Version ConCurrency?


[plenty deleted from those quoted messages but they you all realised that or
don't care]


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