I understand a little about Oracle blocking - how updates block other updates till the transaction completes, how writers don't block readers etc. I understand the concept of pessimistic and opti...

I'm looking for pointers and information here, I'll make this CW since I suspect it has no single one correct answer. This is for C#, hence I'll make some references to Linq below. I also apologize...

Is there any sure-fire way to ensure threads remain isolated from one another, in Java? I've had an issue for a week and a half, where threads implementing various 3rd party source code keep collid...

I'm having a problem with deadlock on SELECT/UPDATE on SQL Server 2008. I read answers from this thread: SQL Server deadlocks between select/update or multiple selects but I still don't understand ...

We can wrap a call to a stored procedure in a transaction and specify an isolation level. Or we can put the transaction inside the stored procedure specify an isolation level there. Which is it b...

Imagine the following scenario - we have Page1 which contains controls Control A and Control B. Say Control A has a button, and on the click of this button we want Control B to react. But we want ...