Distributed Concurrency Control

Question

I\'ve been working on this for a few days now, and I\'ve found several solutions but none of them incredibly simple or lightweight. The problem is basically this: We have a cl

Answer 1

Back in the day, we'd use a specific "lock server" on the network to handle this. Bleh.

Your database server might have resources specifically for doing this kind of thing. MS-SQL Server has application locks usable through the sp_getapplock/sp_releaseapplock procedures.