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Lock contention issues can be frustrating problems to investigate and debug. But anytime a database system is involved, the potential exists for locking to cause concurrency problems. Before blaming ...

In a database management system (DBMS), concurrency control manages simultaneous access to a database. It prevents two users from editing the same record at the same time and also serializes ...

If you build an application program that accesses a database, it is crucial to understand the potential for concurrency problems. When one program attempts to read data that is in the process of being ...