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Designing Data-Intensive Applications – Lost Updates and Write Skew

Coding Blocks

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What if You Can't Have Two Records in the Same Table?

Right skew is when there's a race condition that occurs that allows rights to different records to take place at the same time. The best way I know how to put this is kind of what we've been talking about up to this point, right? And so when you modify the same record, there's things that you can do even in the database layer that takes care of those for you.

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