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Definition 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

Other definitions 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