January 2020
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Concurrency Control |
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• Locking
As you already know, data in a database is generally shared between many user application programs. The situation in which several user application programs read and write the same data at the same time is called concurrency. Thus, each DBMS must have some kind of control mechanism to solve concurrency problems.
A high level of concurrency is possible in a database system that can manage many active user applications without them interfering with each other. Conversely, a database system in which different active applications interfere with each other supports a low level of concurrency.
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