Darren New wrote:

> Or, in my examples, you only have one writer

I missed the part that there was exactly 1 writer. I thought you were 
just saying that you only ever write to one end of the table. [This 
condition alone obviously doesn't preclude Bad Things.]

> A bit kludgey, I'll admit, but better than holding a transactional lock 
> on the table for 30 seconds at a time.

Which is why I prefer Oracle's lock-free approach. But let's not start a 
flamewar about that too...

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