[ic] Database values changing during a job
Kevin Walsh
kevin at cursor.biz
Sun Oct 29 13:38:18 EST 2006
Grant <emailgrant at gmail.com> wrote:
> I have a job that allocates available inventory to orders based on a
> bunch of different factors. It takes about 20 minutes to run and it's
> run every hour. The problem is, if certain values change during the
> job's execution, it will be thrown off.
>
> I thought of setting up a cache of certain values before the job is
> run and comparing them when the job is complete so the job can be
> re-run if anything has changed. Alternatively, is there anything
> built into mysql that I could use to straighten this out?
>
Perhaps you could set up a couple of staging tables. Copy working data
into the staging table(s) and run your job against those. I'm sure you
don't want to lock the tables for 20 minutes at a time, every hour.
On the other hand, wouldn't it be better to allocate inventory to orders
as soon as the orders are placed, and/or as soon as new stock comes in,
rather than running a job every hour. It sounds a lot less error-prone
to me.
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