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To: Thomas Mercer-Hursh who wrote (15046)	1/13/2000 1:45:00 PM
From: Rickus123	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 54805

Thomas, Thanks for the response. Row-level locking is not an extension to SQL... You're probably right about my misuse of the term 'extension'. I think my point is still valid -- that Oracle's addition of row-level locking was not part of standard SQL. And, of course, the SQL standard itself was not controlled by Oracle. So was the gorilla advantage gained in the client/server RDBMS when Oracle's 'row-level locking' implementation was adopted as 'standard' by vendors? While I am fuzzy on the details, my memory is that Oracle "helped" limit the dramatic gains by some major earnings stumbles back then, which probably help to explain the limited gain in stock price, despite a quite commanding position. If that's true, that tells me that this was more of an execution-based royalty game. But what do I know...Rick