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Published inMay 2020
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Josephine Bush
Josephine Bush
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Josephine Bush has over 10 years experience as a Database Administrator. Her experience is extensive and broad-based, including in financial, business, and energy data systems using MySQL, SQL Server, Oracle, and PostgreSQL. She is a Microsoft Certified Solutions Expert: Data Management and Analytics. She holds a BS in Information Technology, an MBA in IT Management, and an MS in Data Analytics.
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Using query hints and transaction isolation levels

Query hints and isolation levels help you to have more control over how your query is executed by MySQL. Before we discuss these topics, let's go over what locking, blocking, and deadlocking mean.

Understand the concepts of locking, blocking, and deadlocking

Locking is what happens when a query runs against a database. There are read locks and write locks:

  • Read locks: Allow other queries reading data (SELECT) to read as well.
  • Write locks: Other queries can't read or write data until the write (INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE) query is complete.

Blocking can happen when one or more queries holds a lock on the same data. Deadlocking can happen when each query locks data...

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Published in: May 2020Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781838984762

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Josephine Bush

Josephine Bush has over 10 years experience as a Database Administrator. Her experience is extensive and broad-based, including in financial, business, and energy data systems using MySQL, SQL Server, Oracle, and PostgreSQL. She is a Microsoft Certified Solutions Expert: Data Management and Analytics. She holds a BS in Information Technology, an MBA in IT Management, and an MS in Data Analytics.
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