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Distributed Transcation as said by RDBMS companies actually is 'Distributed as long as nothing goes wrong'.

Of course, that's the point of ACID. When something does go wrong, your database will rollback the distributed transaction and throw a scary ORA error rather than commit inconsistent data across the cluster. I've never known a properly configured Oracle system to break ACID.

I build these systems for a living, and I am quite certain that they can be made to work. Oracle is hard to set up, no doubt, but I would never blame it for the failure of a project...

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