Question

Charles and Irene are editors at a content development firm. Both of them, unknowingly, are working on the same copy of the annual report. Irene finishes editing the report and saves her copy; Charles saves his report an hour after Irene. Charles's report overwrites Irene's, and her changes are lost. This scenario is an example of the

update query problem
ost-update proble
mcrow's-foot paradigm
bullwhip effect

Answer 1

This scenario is an example of the lost update problem

Step-by-step explanation:

Lost update problem happens when two or more users are updating same data items simultaneously.

The update (among the concurrent updates) that commits at last will recorded as the final value of that particular data item. The other updates will be overwritten and those changes are lost.