How to properly avoid Mysql Race Conditions

Question

I know this has been asked before, but I\'m still confused and would like to avoid any problems before I go into programming if possible.

I plan on having an interna

Answer 1

You may consider Transactions

BEGING TRANSACTION;
SELECT ownership FROM ....; 
UPDATE table .....; // set the ownership if the table not owned yet
COMMIT;

and also you can ROLLBACK all the queries between the transaction if you caught an error !