The specific use I have in mind is something like keeping account records where you unconditionally insert detailed records into one table and update a balance for an account, you don't care about ordering however you want the inserted records and balance to be consistent and it's expensive to lock the account record for the duration.
Sigh - that all looks a bit OODBMS doesn't it? I'm being turned to the dark side.
...actually, thinking a little more, it's just syntactic sugar for a batch of UPDATEs to be performed immediately before the commit.
