On 19/01/2010 1:13 AM, Vincenzo Romano wrote:
Another case, Tom, could be when the file is updated from a non-DB application and you need to synchronize the data with other DB applications ...
How can that work without a transactional file system, though? If the external process writes to the file while you're half-way through reading it, what's the database to do? In general, how do external tables cope with the fact that they're on non-transactional storage?
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