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12. Matters of Concurrency

Louis Davidson1  
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Antioch, TN, USA
 

Never be so busy as not to think of others.

—Mother Teresa, Humanitarian, from The Joy in Loving: A Guide to Daily Living

Concurrency, in a strictly database sense, is the ability to have multiple users/ processes/requests manipulate shared data resources at the same time while keeping everything secure, well maintained, and with proper integrity and not losing data in the process. The key is that when multiple processes or users are accessing the same resources, each user expects to see a consistent view of the data and certainly expects that other ...

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