Archive for June 25th, 2005

Count’em

I wanted to setup a counter for a friends web site, where all the logic is done in the SQL – the reason is that MySQL offers atomic updates (unlike some [read: most] RDBMS which I won’t name here), so I don’t need to lock anything- If I can do all the logic in one statement I get multi-thread safey for free :-).
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