I know it's bad, but in this case, it doesn't matter.

It's a page counter on a very busy site, and it's always deadlocking.

I have a stored procedure that selects the value of a field, adds one,
writes is back, and suspends the new count

The trouble is, it sti takes too long, and deadlocks are a-plenty

If I start a transaction with parameters like "no-wait shared write",
Claudio's site:
(www.cvalde.com/document/TransactionOptions.htm)
says that any transaction can write to any table, even those used by other
transactions...

Does it work? Has anyone used it?

If this is the case, I'll have to add the functionality to the PHP
interface - it doesn't have it yet...(Adding
isc_tpb_shared/isc_tpb_protected options to transaction initialisation)

Nigel.

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