Updating selected record

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font-family:Arial">Hi,</span></font><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial"> </span></font><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial">I have problem with a table from where I select specific field data </span></font><p
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style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">SELECTfiled1, field2 FROM tbl WHERE progress = 1 LIMIT 1</span></font><p
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font-family:Arial"> through a perl script or multiple instances of that script. The script sets the progress value of
theprogressed record to 0, so that other processes not to access that row. I presume I would need some locking
solution,only I haven’t found the real one. </span></font><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span
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font-family:Arial"> </span></font><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial">I hope somebody has a bright idea.</span></font><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial"
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font-family:Arial"> </span></font><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial">Regards,</span></font><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span
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font-family:Arial"> </span></font><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial">Levi</span></font></div>