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# [Locked In: The Hidden World of Database Locks](https://mahmoudashour.hashnode.dev/locked-in-the-hidden-world-of-database-locks?utm_source=hashnode&utm_medium=feed)

Learn about table-level, row-level, and next-key locks to prevent concurrency issues such as race conditions and phantom reads

Oct 8, 2024 · 7 min read · mahmoudashour.hashnode.dev  
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-   [#concurrency](https://hashnode.com/tag/concurrency)
-   [#locking](https://hashnode.com/tag/locking)

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SWE @ Midade | ex-Orange

Software Engineer at Orange | Intelligent network Backend team. Passionate about low level programming and large scale server side applications.

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