Timeline for Choosing which application instance will do the updates when dealing with multiple workstations w/o server involved?
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| Oct 12, 2013 at 20:44 | comment | added | B.K. | @RobertHarvey Thanks, Robert. I will explore the method being discussed at that link. | |
| Oct 12, 2013 at 17:17 | comment | added | Robert Harvey | stackoverflow.com/questions/7971371/… | |
| Oct 12, 2013 at 14:40 | comment | added | rlperez | I know it costs money but VistaDB has multi user access support in this way. | |
| Oct 12, 2013 at 6:06 | comment | added | B.K. | Yeah, that's my biggest concern is the race condition... I need to find a class that would allow me to open a file exclusively. Or figure out how to lock down a table in SQLite database for 1 read at a time. That way, in either case, by the time next one reads, it's already changed. | |
| Oct 12, 2013 at 5:56 | comment | added | Robert Harvey | Well, that sucks. Guess you're going to have to update a field in some table in the database as your flag, and then have all of the clients check that flag before they start their update cycle (so only the first one wins). When the update is done, you can clear the flag. If you need versioning, devote a table specifically to that purpose. You'll have to be careful about race conditions. | |
| Oct 12, 2013 at 5:55 | comment | added | B.K. | I mentioned in my post that I can't put any programs on the server. Otherwise this would not be an issue. | |
| Oct 12, 2013 at 5:53 | history | answered | Robert Harvey | CC BY-SA 3.0 |