Answer:
The situation described in the question is referred to as:
Condition Ownership Data Skew.
When designing record access for enterprise-scale, it would be a mistake to assign a role to a dummy user.
To correct the above problem, It is advisable to distribute the ownership of records across a large number of users.
This ususally has the effect of decreasing the chance of occurrence of long-running updates.
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