Posted by Erland Sommarskog on 06/25/05 00:50

xAvailx (bjzamora@hotmail.com) writes:
> Below is the DDL, DML and a Stored Proc demonstrating the approach. I
> am using a rowversion column for concurrency checking. Another approach
> that is less intrusive (doesn't require having a rowversion column in
> all tables) is using checksum. I may eventually use checksum but the
> process flow should be almost identical.

I would advice against using checksum. The checksum functions in SQL Server
are simple XOR, and the probability that two different rows are not
detected is not negligible.

rowversion is fine.


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