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Firebird Stored Procedure: Select first seat available in list

Asked by rfwoolf in Interbase / Firebird Database, Delphi Programming, SQL Query Syntax

Tags: Stored Procedure, Firebird

Thanks for reading...

Never done a stored procedure before.
Here's the scenario:
On the server sits a table of seats available, example: A1, A2, A3, A4, A5, ... B1, B2, B3, B4, B5 etc.
Currently, for the system to choose a seat, it fetches all the seats in that table, sorts them in Ascending order, and chooses the first one that's available.
The problem is, what if two clients try to do this at the exact same time? They could hypothetically both choose the same seat.

So bottom line is I need our server to do this for me.

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Firebird Stored Procedure: Select first seat available in list

Asked by rfwoolf in Interbase / Firebird Database, Delphi Programming, SQL Query Syntax

Tags: Stored Procedure, Firebird

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