RE: How to choose Name or Scope when locking

2001-02-23 Thread Dave Watts
Databases do this stuff for you; that's what transactional database processing is all about. I'd strongly recommend using transactions within the database to do this instead of CFLOCK. how about cftransaction? CFTRANSACTION allows CF to take advantage of transaction processing within

RE: How to choose Name or Scope when locking

2001-02-22 Thread Zachary Bedell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I haven't seen anything yet that talks explicitly about when to use the Name attribute and when to use the Scope attribute. There have been a number of threads around whether to single thread updates to a single table. For example, lets

RE: How to choose Name or Scope when locking

2001-02-22 Thread Susan Rayburn
This clears it up a bit.. http://www.sys-con.com/coldfusion/archives/0208/Forta/index.html -Original Message- From: Andy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, February 22, 2001 9:58 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: How to choose Name or Scope when locking I haven't seen anything yet that

RE: How to choose Name or Scope when locking

2001-02-22 Thread alistair . davidson
accessing it. Hope that helps Alistair Davidson Senior Web Developer Rocom www.rocomx.net -Original Message- From: Zachary Bedell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 22 February 2001 16:01 To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: How to choose Name or Scope when locking -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash

RE: How to choose Name or Scope when locking

2001-02-22 Thread Jeffry Houser
At 11:01 AM 02/22/2001 -0500, you wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I haven't seen anything yet that talks explicitly about when to use the Name attribute and when to use the Scope attribute. There have been a number of threads around whether to single thread updates

Re: How to choose Name or Scope when locking

2001-02-22 Thread Andy
CTED] Sent: Thursday, February 22, 2001 10:01 AM Subject: RE: How to choose Name or Scope when locking -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I haven't seen anything yet that talks explicitly about when to use the Name attribute and when to use the Scope attribute. There have been

RE: How to choose Name or Scope when locking

2001-02-22 Thread Zachary Bedell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I haven't seen anything yet that talks explicitly about when to use the Name attribute and when to use the Scope attribute. There have been a number of threads around whether to single thread updates to a single table. For example,

RE: How to choose Name or Scope when locking

2001-02-22 Thread Dave Watts
First of all... Why in lord's name would you want to single thread your DB access? Fairly common example: You insert something in the database, and immediately need to access the ID of that new thing. You want to single thread the insert and select, so the table doesn't change.

RE: How to choose Name or Scope when locking

2001-02-22 Thread Zachary Bedell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Zac, Thanks. This was very helpful. One clarification question. Does a Named lock prevent a same-named thread within the session or application(on a single server?)? Well... I'm not quite sure what you're asking. The three scoped

Re: How to choose Name or Scope when locking

2001-02-22 Thread sebastian palmigiani
on 2/22/01 2:13 PM, Dave Watts at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Databases do this stuff for you; that's what transactional database processing is all about. I'd strongly recommend using transactions within the database to do this instead of CFLOCK. Of course, I suspect that you already know this,