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GeneralRead Only Transactions Pin
Patje28-Apr-03 22:08
Patje28-Apr-03 22:08 
Hi,
Our company writes simulation and optimisation software. Because of that, we need:
1. a consistent view of the data
2. fast access to the data
Therefore all relevant data is loaded from the database at once, and all optimisation and simulation is performed on the data in memory.
We do this since the late 80s on databases like Vax/Rdb, Ingres and Oracle. All of these databases offer the possibility of starting a Read-Only Transation, i.e. all queries performed in the transaction 'see' the data like it was at the start of the transaction, even if it was modified by some other user in the mean time.
We are now considering Microsoft's SQL Server, but apparently it does not offer the possibility of Read-Only transactions. This means that if our application starts up and wants to load all relevant data of the database, it has to use a 'serializable' transaction (actually putting a Read lock on all the tables) to be sure that consistent data is read.
This means that:
- during a start-up, nobody can save
- during a save, nobody can start-up
I'm stunned to see that SQL Server does not offer Read-Only transactions.
Probably most of the [database] world is developing OLTP-type applications, but somewhere there must be somebody writing applications that need to load big parts of the database.
How do these people solve that problem?
Did anybody encounter this problem also and has found a solution for it?

Thanks in advance.

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GeneralRelated Tables: How to set forgeign key of child table when adding new rows to parenttable Pin
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QuestionHow to get the last inserted and updated id (primary_key) with Sql C# Pin
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