[AccessD] How does Access locking work

jwcolby jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com
Thu Sep 15 06:34:56 CDT 2011


So what is a lock?  Something written to disk I assume?  Where?  Completely stored in memory? How do 
I speed that up.

John W. Colby
www.ColbyConsulting.com

On 9/15/2011 1:51 AM, Drew Wutka wrote:
> I think I have the old Jet white paper somewhere.  But basically Jet
> would 'lock' the .ldb file where it needed to lock the .mdb.  So the
> .mdb would never be locked (allowing for multiple edits), and the lock
> on the .mdb would be actually on the .ldb file.
>
> So say the .mdb was 100 megs.  And it needed to lock the 50th megabyte,
> the .ldb file was always small (I think it was 64 bits per user, up to
> 255 users), so it would never reach the 50 meg size, but the 'lock'
> would be placed on the 'virtual' 50 meg point of the .ldb.
>
> Make sense?
>
> Drew



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