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Comment NOT ORACLE unless you're Citibank... (Score 1) 47

In a read-only Web application transactions are unnecessary and table-level locks are sufficient. But a multi-user read/write application would need row-level locking granularity or clearly it'd be unreliable.

Similarly, if you don't use rollback in your multi-user systems, your database will be worse than useless. Period.

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