    smaller chance of encountering blocked and deadlocked
                operations. However, by doing things this way, we are able
                to show transactional atomicity, as well as deadlock
                handling.
            </p>
        <p>
                At the end of each transaction,
                <code class="literal">DBWriter.java</code> runs a cursor over the
                entire database by way of counting the number of records
                currently existing in the database. 