In this post, we'll apply security technologies for stored data. It's helpful to remember that we can't depend upon underlying infrastructure to secure data in the cloud, so we are focused on applying ...

Lock contention issues can be frustrating problems to investigate and debug. But anytime a database system is involved, the potential exists for locking to cause concurrency problems. Before blaming ...

A first-come, first-served technique for managing data in a multiuser environment. The first user to access the file or data record prevents, or locks out, other users from accessing it. After the ...

As a database consultant, one of the things I am most frequently asked about is dealing with database locking issues. Usually, the question is posed by someone who is experiencing a slowdown in their ...

File locks are heavily used by applications such as databases and file servers. Whenever you have multiple programs accessing files at the same time there is always the potential for data corruption ...