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Re: What are the BIG reasons for locking the TABLE? :)
Posted by: Andrew Gilfrin
Date: July 26, 2005 02:28PM

It's basically so people reading and writing in another session don't effect a long running transaction in your session.

Lets say you want to do various things with the data which ends with a calculation on the totals in a table, it may be that during the original processing somebody added some records which will result in the totals not matching up with the data you have already processed.

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