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Designing Data-Intensive Applications – Lost Updates and Write Skew

Coding Blocks

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Application Development

The book has gotten smarter about like merging those changes in with what your current edits are. Compare set two is it's not an error if zero records are updated, or if you're updating multiple and only four of the five get updated or something. So it's up to the application to know to check correctly. It's kind of funny. I've never been clear to me whether they're losing it or not. Like I seriously wonder.

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