record locks

[Ruslan Zasukhin]

On 5/29/04 12:59 AM, "Ian Devaney" <idevaney at mac.com> wrote:

Hi Ian,

> In practical terms, why would I want to lock records with a read lock
> or a write lock?
> 
> I've never really "got" it!

This is required if you work in multi-user way.

Otherwise both users can write into the same record.
Changes of the firs one will be lost.

Please read any SQL DBMS book on this.

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