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From: bote@csense.UUCP (John Boteler)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Concurrency control in real life
Keywords: concurrency updates
Message-ID: <322@csense.UUCP>
Date: 27 Jul 89 05:49:35 GMT
Organization: Common Sense Computing, McLean Va
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In order for my brain to learn most effectively, it needs an
analogy:

I request that someone post a solid example of an instance
where concurrency is a problem to control, perhaps with
a discussion of concurrency issues relating to the example.

I am trying to envision 10 stock traders all scrambling 
simultaneously to write the latest price of an issue on a 
blackboard in a busy Manhattan center...how many can actually
have the right price? The latest price?

A man with two watches is never sure what time it is.

Someone please straighten me out.

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