No sweat :-D

Because you wouldn't want to pessimistic lock an entire table and you're forced to table lock in Grids which is what you'd be using a lot of to show parent-child relationships.

>Okay, but then why wouldn't you wouldn't use pessimistic locking on the child? (I'm sorry, I'm being very thick, I know).
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>>Not *if* the only access to the child records was via the parent row's data entry form.
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>>>Okay, I think I'm catching up <s>. IOW, if you pessimistically lock the parent table, then the children are...What? Another user can't change the parent that you have locked, but they could change the children, could they not?
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