On Thursday 14 September 2006 16:12, Jurgen Beck wrote: > I see two solutions:
I have actually seen the 2nd in use on (I think) ticketmaster - during check out it told me the seats were reserved for 20 minutes, and if I hadn't payed by then I'd lose them and they'd go back in the pool. You could probably calculate the chance of a collitsion based on the length of time it takes to do a booking, how many customers there are (at once) and how many seats there are. If the chance in low, and fairly simple 'soft reserve' like the above or you option 2 is going to be best, I feel. OTOH, if collisions are going to be frequent, you want to be more proactive to help the users out - but at the end of the day, two people might just press 'submit' at the same time, and one of them is going to get a rolled back transaction and 'please choose another seat'. The other party may back out later, but there isn't much I think you can do about that. -- Tom Chiverton Helping to confidentially create open-source bandwidth **************************************************** This email is sent for and on behalf of Halliwells LLP. Halliwells LLP is a limited liability partnership registered in England and Wales under registered number OC307980 whose registered office address is at St James's Court Brown Street Manchester M2 2JF. A list of members is available for inspection at the registered office. Any reference to a partner in relation to Halliwells LLP means a member of Halliwells LLP. Regulated by the Law Society. CONFIDENTIALITY This email is intended only for the use of the addressee named above and may be confidential or legally privileged. If you are not the addressee you must not read it and must not use any information contained in nor copy it nor inform any person other than Halliwells LLP or the addressee of its existence or contents. If you have received this email in error please delete it and notify Halliwells LLP IT Department on 0870 365 8008. For more information about Halliwells LLP visit www.halliwells.com. -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> 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/
