John,

If you have questions ask them here. I'm ready to answer. You see, there are some so good people around that I must be careful.

>Hi John, Ed,
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>I am also interested in Ed's general framework. I have seen glimpses of it from time to time in his posts here. I think an "alternate approach" article for the KB here would be very enlightening.
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>>OK, I'll bite... I have some technical queries......
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>>1. How does your methodology work with regard to Transactions?
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>>2. If I want to discard wholesale changes to a cursor, and restore the values
>> on disk, how would I do that?
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>>3. With regard to optimistic locking, and detecting if others have made changes
>> to data before I attempt to commit my changes, how would I do that?
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>>4. I like the idea of local views? How would I use them? You say you don't use
>> buffering. Yet, all views have to be buffered.
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>>That is it for now....
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>>Here is to hoping you don't leave me with that impression that you avoid further explanations.... :) See you tomorrow night!!!!! :)
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>>>>>I develop applications this way, and have some knowledge here.
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>>>>Hi Ed. I have seen you mention your technique a few times over the years. It would be interesting if you could upload an article showing this technique. I remember once you called it "unbound". Interesting.
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>>>One more thing. I do not want to create impression that I avoid further explanations. I have to leave in few minutes, but if you have any tech questions, post them here: I will be back tomorrow night, and will try to answer.