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What if an application has thousands of simultaneous users at any given time and throughout the course of it’s existence 2 or more users perform an action that causes the app to update a database table due to a request performed at the exact same time (to the nano second).
What would happen, would MySQL simply put one over the other and the change will reflect the last or would the world come to an end due to some sort of internal conflict error?
It completely depends on how the queries have been structured and what concurrency controls you have used.
I suggest reading this for a good overview of the issues and possible solutions.