will cftransactoin work?

2002-04-26 Thread mynews
I asked this last week and I wasn't sure about the answer. I have 3 computers accessing a SQL-server at the same time. I need the DB to be locked so they can't read/write the data at the same time. How do I get the servers to get in line and wait for each other? BJ

RE: will cftransactoin work?

2002-04-26 Thread Dave Watts
I have 3 computers accessing a SQL-server at the same time. I need the DB to be locked so they can't read/write the data at the same time. How do I get the servers to get in line and wait for each other? Almost all databases provide that functionality automatically. If one database client

RE: will cftransactoin work?

2002-04-26 Thread mynews
The problem is that each Server has to read and THEN write before the next one reads. Any ideas? BJ = = = Original message = = = I have 3 computers accessing a SQL-server at the same time. I need the DB to be locked so they can't read/write the data at the same time. How do I get the

RE: will cftransactoin work?

2002-04-26 Thread Matthew R. Small
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, April 26, 2002 10:13 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: will cftransactoin work? The problem is that each Server has to read and THEN write before the next one reads. Any ideas? BJ = = = Original message = = = I have

RE: will cftransactoin work?

2002-04-26 Thread Dave Watts
The problem is that each Server has to read and THEN write before the next one reads. Any ideas? If you have multiple queries that need to be treated as a single transaction, then you can use CFTRANSACTION to group those queries, or write transactional logic in a stored procedure and call

RE: will cftransactoin work?

2002-04-26 Thread Ryan Kime
, 2002 8:30 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: will cftransactoin work? I asked this last week and I wasn't sure about the answer. I have 3 computers accessing a SQL-server at the same time. I need the DB to be locked so they can't read/write the data at the same time. How do I get the servers to get

Re: will cftransactoin work?

2002-04-26 Thread Jochem van Dieten
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The problem is that each Server has to read and THEN write before the next one reads. Any ideas? Why? Most databases provide some sort of build in functionality to do this for the obvious reason (automatic incrementing of a primary key field). So you must have a

Re: will cftransactoin work?

2002-04-26 Thread mynews
Sure. I am using SQL_server 2000. The servers are all mirrored and they run update agents every so often. The table in question shows which agents ran at which times. I only want a server to run an agent if that agent hasn't run in X minutes. So the servers check to see when it ran last if