RE: Detached datasets and DRDA compliance

["Joe Pluta" <joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks, Nathan.

I'm taking my family out for a long weekend, so I'm going to desist from
the database discussion for now.  However, it seems to me that Joel's
assertion that detached datasets should be used for update is fraught
with peril.  Who handles locking?  Who handles update collisions?  It
seems this is taking huge leaps BACKWARD in application design, back to
the days when users could step all over each other's updates, and all
because distributed databases simply do not scale well.  Common sense
tells you that the more of your data that is on a single machine, the
better your performance.

But hopefully I can address this in more detail when I get back.

Joe

> From: Nathan Andelin
> 
> BTW, I appreciated your response to Trevor Perry.  It
> seems that the iSeries Network has been drawn away
> from its traditional moorings lately, forming
> alliances with sponsors having strong ties to
> Microsoft, which doesn't sit well with me either.