>>>>> "PN" == Pieter Nagel <pieter@nagel.co.za> writes: PN> I've allways disliked versions because they conjured up mental PN> images of spaghetti code in the DB engine to cope with the PN> combination of versions and transactions. I'm not sure why they configured up images of speghetti code. The notion of locking an object seems fairly natural for a database. Jeremy