Preventing Deadlock in Multi User Environment - delphi-xe2

The current situation: We develop a program to manage multiple e-Commerce Shops. Editing an order is a task that includes many tables and therefore it's neccessary to use transactions. If the last query fails, all the previous changes must be reverted.
We have a function to alter orders into invoices. This function may alter multiple orders at once. Each alter has it's own transaction and they are processed one-by-one.
Now the problem: If 2 users use this function at the same time - on different orders - they run into a Deadlock...
DBMS: SQL Server 2008 R2
Connection Components: UniDAC v4.5.9 - TUniConnection
One solution I tried is, setting the LockMode to lmPessimistic. This reduces the Deadlocks, but they still occur...
UPDATE:
The problem was solved by using "READ_COMMITTED_SNAPSHOT" as the database Isolation Mode. This works fine for us, but won't work for all Deadlock Situations and has some sideeffects!

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how to install patches in parallel in liquibase?

my project has large oracle sql scripts. liquibase locks the schema (DATABASECHANGELOGLOCK table) when installing a single patch. How do I install multiple patches in parallel without a queue?
P.S. Oracle will independently make locks at its discretion.
Any DDL is make the new schema state that is based on previous state. If the previous state is not valid, you cant apply next DDL (it is impossible to add new constrain to the column that not exist). To check the previous state, you use precondition in your changesets.
So, in general it is impossible to parallelise the schema update, because the schema changes should be applied in order and the order can't be changed.
The lock on DATABASECHANGELOGLOCK is aimed to be sure that it is impossible to run two schema update process in one time, and it is reasonable restriction, so don't try to get around it.
If update process takes to much time, just be sure that you:
not use liquibase to change database state (add data to tables)
not use liquibase to update code objects (functions, procedures and etc.) in the database
not use liquibase for migrate large amount of data

Dynamically List contents of a table in database that continously updates

It's kinda real-world problem and I believe the solution exists but couldn't find one.
So We, have a Database called Transactions that contains tables such as Positions, Securities, Bogies, Accounts, Commodities and so on being updated continuously every second whenever a new transaction happens. For the time being, We have replicated master database Transaction to a new database with name TRN on which we do all the querying and updating stuff.
We want a sort of monitoring system ( like htop process viewer in Linux) for Database that dynamically lists updated rows in tables of the database at any time.
TL;DR Is there any way to get a continuous updating list of rows in any table in the database?
Currently we are working on Sybase & Oracle DBMS on Linux (Ubuntu) platform but we would like to receive generic answers that concern most of the platform as well as DBMS's(including MySQL) and any tools, utilities or scripts that can do so that It can help us in future to easily migrate to other platforms and or DBMS as well.
To list updated rows, you conceptually need either of the two things:
The updating statement's effect on the table.
A previous version of the table to compare with.
How you get them and in what form is completely up to you.
The 1st option allows you to list updates with statement granularity while the 2nd is more suitable for time-based granularity.
Some options from the top of my head:
Write to a temporary table
Add a field with transaction id/timestamp
Make clones of the table regularly
AFAICS, Oracle doesn't have built-in facilities to get the affected rows, only their count.
Not a lot of details in the question so not sure how much of this will be of use ...
'Sybase' is mentioned but nothing is said about which Sybase RDBMS product (ASE? SQLAnywhere? IQ? Advantage?)
by 'replicated master database transaction' I'm assuming this means the primary database is being replicated (as opposed to the database called 'master' in a Sybase ASE instance)
no mention is made of what products/tools are being used to 'replicate' the transactions to the 'new database' named 'TRN'
So, assuming part of your environment includes Sybase(SAP) ASE ...
MDA tables can be used to capture counters of DML operations (eg, insert/update/delete) over a given time period
MDA tables can capture some SQL text, though the volume/quality could be in doubt if a) MDA is not configured properly and/or b) the DML operations are wrapped up in prepared statements, stored procs and triggers
auditing could be enabled to capture some commands but again, volume/quality could be in doubt based on how the DML commands are executed
also keep in mind that there's a performance hit for using MDA tables and/or auditing, with the level of performance degradation based on individual config settings and the volume of DML activity
Assuming you're using the Sybase(SAP) Replication Server product, those replicated transactions sent through repserver likely have all the info you need to know which tables/rows are being affected; so you have a couple options:
route a copy of the transactions to another database where you can capture the transactions in whatever format you need [you'll need to design the database and/or any customized repserver function strings]
consider using the Sybase(SAP) Real Time Data Streaming product (yeah, additional li$ence is required) which is specifically designed for scenarios like yours, ie, pull transactions off the repserver queues and format for use in downstream systems (eg, tibco/mqs, custom apps)
I'm not aware of any 'generic' products that work, out of the box, as per your (limited) requirements. You're likely looking at some different solutions and/or customized code to cover your particular situation.

Why informatica fetches more records from source when source itself has less records

I have an issue in production env, one of the work flow is running more tgan one day and inserting records in to sql server db. It s just direct load mapping, there is no sq over ride as well. Monitor shows sq count as 7 million and inseting same no of records inyo target. But source db shows around 3 million records only. How can this be possible?
Have you checked if the source qualifier is joining more than one table? A screenshot of the affected mapping pipeline and obfuscated logfile would help.
Another thought... given your job ran for a day, were there any jobs ran in that time to purge old records from the source table?
Cases when I saw this kind of things happening:
There's a SQL Query override doing something different than I thought (eg. joining some tables)
I'm looking at a different source - verify the connections and make sure to check the same object on the same database at the same server the PowerCenter is connecting to.
It's a reusable session being executed multiple times by different workflows. In such case in workflow monitor it may happen that Source/Target Statistics will refer to another execution.

ATTACH - Is there a price to pay?

When two databases are attached is there a hit in performance compared to having a separate connection to each? Also, if I was writing data to one of the attached databases would both databases be locked or just the one being written to?
The reason I ask is it just seems simpler to me to have one connection that I ATTACH / DETACH each database to / from as it becomes needed / redundant rather than opening and closing connections to each of them all the time. My app doesn't have any threads.
Transaction are atomic over all attached databases; this requires creating a separate master journal in addition to all the normal rollback journals of the actual databases.
When having attached databases, table names (and PRAGMA statements) might require that the database name is added.
For these reason, ATTACH is usually used only when you actually need to access multiple databases in the same query.

Oracle database as a single synchronization point for two separate web applications

I am considering using an Oracle database to synchronize concurrent operations from two or more web applications on separate servers. The database is the single infrastructure element in common for those applications.
There is a good chance that two or more applications will attempt to perform the same operation at the exact same moment (cron invoked). I want to use the database to let one application decide that it will be the one which will do the work, and that the others will not do it at all.
The general idea is to perform a somehow-atomic and visible to all connections select/insert with node's ID. Only node which has the same id as the first inserted node ID returned by select would be do the work.
It was suggested to me that a merge statement can be of use here. However, after doing some research, I found a discussion which states that the merge statement is not designed to be called
Another option is to lock a table. By definition, only one node will be able to lock the server and do the insert, then select. After the lock is removed, other instances will see the inserted value and will not perform work.
What other solutions would you consider? I frown on workarounds with random delays, or even using oracle exceptions to notify a node that it should not do the work. I'd prefer a clean solution.
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