How to lock a single row

Question

I have a user table with field lastusedecnumber.

I need to access and increment lastusedecnumber.

During that accessin

Answer 1

I didn't feel like converting my whole database from myisam. So I simply try to create a new table named based on the id of the record I want to lock. If create table is successful, do my work and delete the table at the end. If create table not successful, stop.