>>The problem it seems is that you are expecting a web app to behave like a classic client server app. Unfortunately, HTTP is a stateless protocol, and simply doesn't behave the same way.
Please, I'm not that dumb, I know what an application is compared to a simple web page. All the same, we coldFusion developpers, are able to create complete multi-user true applications and work around THE HTTP "statelessness". I is just too bad we have no tool to really control race conditions in our databases, and I just wonder how many among us really care about it. >>For example, many databases do have the kind of locking you are talking about - for example in Oracle you can do select...for update, which locks the selected record until the update is completed by the session that initiated the select. However, in a web app, this doesn't work - there is no continuous session state for Oracle to track - the select and the subsequent update are entirely unconnected events. It's the nature of the beast. If this kind of feature was implemented in ODBC or JDBC, and was standard in SQL, there could be a tool in CF. CF is able to keep connections open, manage time limits. IF ODBC or JDBC was able to manage locks, there would be no problem. >>Web application servers work around statelessness to a degree with session management, but it's a bit of a kludge, and doesn't introduce true statefulness. It merely makes the application capable of knowing that two separate actions are part of one session, but since the app isn't connected to the browser in real time, there is no real knowledge of the "in between". As I said, the CF server itself is able to manage sessions, the browser is not important here. If there were proper tools in ODBC, CF could do it easily. Let me see if there is anything about lock in ODBC, and I might come up with a new version of CFX_ODBCInfo with a true record lock facility? >>but it's not a flaw in CF or SQL, but rather in the underlying statelessness of HTTP. I don't agree, it is a lack of facilities in SQL first. suppose there was an SQL satement like LOCK FROM table WHERE id = blah... and that this acted like a query returning a lock handle, and suppose there was a twin statement like UNLOCK handle Then, any one could use record locking in CF, provided they activate sessions. -- _______________________________________ REUSE CODE! Use custom tags; See http://www.contentbox.com/claude/customtags/tagstore.cfm (Please send any spam to this address: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) Thanks. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Introducing the Fusion Authority Quarterly Update. 80 pages of hard-hitting, up-to-date ColdFusion information by your peers, delivered to your door four times a year. http://www.fusionauthority.com/quarterly Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:252436 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
