3.3 Using Batches to Do a Lot of Work Without Blocking

Let’s say we need to do a lot of work: Delete all of the Users whose Location = ‘London, United Kingdom’ Plus delete all of their rows in related tables: Badges, Comments, Posts, and Votes We could try doing it in one giant transaction, but that’s going to take out exclusive locks on a lot…

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