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A while ago we were working on an application that had an entire version specially created for mobiles, such as...
Note: For PostgreSQL you should use advisory locks. For MySQL we still recommend the solution in this card.
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This tool is used on our application servers (and called when deploying) but it also works locally. Just call dumple...