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  • yes but lets say a user locks the record for payment update, how do you release the lock if the user simply navigates away from the page without completing the transaction? Plus there are multiple pages involved user starts from checkout page and then moves to payment page - in a mvc application how can you implement such a database transaction? When user moves to payment page (1 http get request) you retrieve a lock, user then submit payment on that page (another http post request) how do you maintain a transaction across multiple http request? Commented Jun 3, 2019 at 12:16
  • your reply is focusing on a database level lock what I'm after is more of a application level lock on a record. This "lock" can last seconds, minutes, hours, or whatever max timeout I specify. Commented Jun 3, 2019 at 12:36
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    @adam78 never hold a lock while waiting on a human. We are not the most reliable of components. Commented Jun 3, 2019 at 12:58