It exists to overcome DB2 concurrency problems.

A nice feature you say? :)

On 7/12/07, Buchanan, Jason <oracle@(protected):
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> On Jul 10, 2007, at 10:48 AM, Hemant K Chitale wrote:
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> > An Oracle query never reads dirty (uncommitted) data.
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> Uncommitted Read isolation level is one of the few nice features of
> DB2 that is lacking in Oracle.
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