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Definition of optimistic concurrency

A type of locking in which the data page or row containing one or more records (rows) — (including the data being edited) — is unavailable to other users only while the data is being updated, but is available between the Edit and Update operations.

Computer Science

Other definitions of optimistic concurrency

A method of managing concurrency by using a cached object’s version information. Because every update to an object changes its version number, using version information prevents the update from overwriting someone else’s changes.

Computer Science