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I've thought about such an approach, but what if the application crashes? Or if the server goes down. How do I unlock the record in such a situation?

Martijn
– Martijn

2010-09-22 08:09:33 +00:00
Commented Sep 22, 2010 at 8:09
There is no easy way, I think. Make the locks expire by recording a datetime that it was locked and use a trigger or scheduled job to cleanup locks that exist too long. What you're essentially doing is pessimistic locking. also see this: stackoverflow.com/questions/386162/pessimistic-lock-in-t-sql

stombeur
– stombeur

2010-09-22 08:23:06 +00:00
Commented Sep 22, 2010 at 8:23

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