Re: Cheap table lock?

On 2002.09.27 20:33 tony ynot wrote:
> Is Select ... For Update;
> a cheap table lock?
> It seems whenever code uses this statement
> all the records in the cursor are locked
> until the cursor is closed.
>

Fancy that! It works as described in the manual! Who would say?

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