Deadlock And Bad Users
Explore how deadlocks happen when multiple transactions compete for the same database resources, blocking system threads and causing downtime. Understand different types of bad users—both inadvertent and malicious—who disrupt system performance. Learn technical and legal strategies to mitigate resource-draining screen scrapers and maintain system resilience.
How deadlock occurs
Imagine 100,000 transactions all trying to update the same row of the same table in the same database. Somebody is bound to get deadlocked. Once a single transaction with a lock ...