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"Joel Garry" <joel-garry_at_home.com> wrote:
> What if two other users change the value of X to Z and W?
Then you are not using Oracle.
The "outer" transaction locks the row when it performs the initial update. Other users trying to update that row will be blocked.
Xho
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