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Day 17. Transactions and Table Locking

In today's lesson you will learn about how to process transactions in MySQL using table locking and transaction-safe tables.

Particular topics you will study today are

What table locking is, why you would want to do it, and how to do it
The MySQL queries for locking tables, LOCK TABLES and UNLOCK TABLES
How to do cooperative locking
How to do transaction processing using transaction-safe InnoDB tables

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