Hi, Enrico,

Enrico Weigelt wrote:

> i've a dozen of servers processing jobs from a database. 
> Some servers may only run exactly once, otherwise I'll get jobs 
> done twice. 
> 
> Is there any way for implementing an kind of mutex within the
> database, which is automatically released if the holding 
> process/connection dies ?

Use the "LOCK" sql command, possibly together with transaction isolation
set to serializable.

Markus

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