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I have an issue where I have a table that stores a unique value in it. Many programs read this unique value and then increment it. You can see the problem already - if two programs read at the same time (or even close to the same time), they get the same unique value and the result is a duplicate. The database structure cannot be changed (to use an auto-number for example).
There's another wrinkle here - I need to give priority to one program (web application) over the rest (since the web app can time out and the others can wait). So this solution needs to handle the instance where one application is doing reads/writes and if the web does a read, the other application needs to wait.
How can this be accomplished?
I have an issue where I have a table that stores a unique value in it. Many programs read this unique value and then increment it. You can see the problem already - if two programs read at the same time (or even close to the same time), they get the same unique value and the result is a duplicate. The database structure cannot be changed (to use an auto-number for example).
There's another wrinkle here - I need to give priority to one program (web application) over the rest (since the web app can time out and the others can wait). So this solution needs to handle the instance where one application is doing reads/writes and if the web does a read, the other application needs to wait.
How can this be accomplished?
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