[ NNSquad ] Fundamental Oracle flaw revealed

[Lauren Weinstein <lauren@vortex.com>]

Fundamental Oracle flaw revealed

http://j.mp/A6tG8v  (Infoworld)

   "The architects of Oracle's flagship database application must have
    been well aware the SCN needed to be a massive integer. It is: a
    48-bit number (281,474,976,710,656). It would take eons for an Oracle
    database to eclipse that number of transactions and cause problems --
    or so you might think."

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--Lauren--
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