SQL BackEnd Clarification

[Colin Law]

On 26 November 2013 13:11, Mike or Penny Novack
<stepbystepfarm at mtdata.com> wrote:
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>> And so, multi-user is unsupported in the current version, because when
>> writing to the database, changes made by others are overwritten / undone and
>> may result in inconsistency in the data. Is support for multi-user on the
>> wishlist, and if so, is it in current progress or what is its priority?
>>
> Maybe I can clarify that question?
>
> Perhaps not obvious to our community of users but THIS (support for multiple
> simultaneous users of a database) isn't just a matter for the application.
>
> FIRST -- there must exist a DBM (database manager) program for that
> database. All programs providing multiple simultaneous users access would
> need to be changed so that they could run under the control of this DBM but
> the DBM wouldn't be part of any of them.

I don't understand what you mean by this.  MySQL already provides safe
multi-user access.  What would the DBM provide that is not already
provided by MySQL?

Colin