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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