Hi friends, In my quest for achieving FailSafe record locking in MSSQL2000 programatically using Delphi 7 , i came across the following article in web. My reaction to this hint is ,this is simple and looks safe. But i would like our forum friends to give any possible negative impact on implementing this tip. I would appreciate if anybody can suggest better way of implementing failsafe record locking in mssql2000 using delphi. thanks in advance regards nisha. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- --------- Author Name :Mr.Vassilis Perantzakis
For every record you want to lock to this: Create a global temporary table that is named after the table on which the record is, together with the Unique Id of the table. For example, if you have a table named customers, with a unique id field called Uid and you want to lock the record with uid=14, create the table using this query: Create table ##Customers14 (id int null) .When you want to unlock the record just drop that table: Drop table ##Customers14 Now lets say that another user wants to use the same record. His client programm tries to create the same global temporary table, but fails with an exception,because no two global temporary tables can have the same name. Trap the exception in a try- except clause and you are home free. TIPS. a) Use this only for SQLServer 7 and above. SQL 6.5 and below have a terrible way of handling Temprorary tables that gives a lot of overhead. b) You can create any kind of collumn in your temporary table, so you can have info like what time the record was locked and by what user. c) Never use this approach if there is a chance someone will forget his computer open on a record for hours, and that computer is located lets say 100 miles from the server!!! d) If the connection is lost by lets say an application error, the table is automatically droped by the SQL Server. e) If the computer shutsdown by a power failure, the SQL Server waits for about 15 minutes and then drops the temporary table, or if the computer logs on again the table is droped automatically. f) If you don't want to have to handle an exception you can also check for the existance of the Temporary table in the Master database. ------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> <font face=arial size=-1><a href="http://us.ard.yahoo.com/SIG=12hg7ipsk/M=362329.6886308.7839368.1510227/D=groups/S=1705115362:TM/Y=YAHOO/EXP=1124360355/A=2894321/R=0/SIG=11dvsfulr/*http://youthnoise.com/page.php?page_id=1992 ">Fair play? Video games influencing politics. Click and talk back!</a>.</font> --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> ----------------------------------------------------- Home page: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/delphi-en/ To unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/delphi-en/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
