RE: Unindexed FK Cause Deadlock or Only Share Lock?

Forgot to add, does the cardinality of the column matter, what if the only possible values are "Y" and "N", what if 99.9% of the rows are all "Y"? Does the index still prevent a deadlock?

What are the internals on this, anyone know?

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From: Allen, Brandon [mailto:Brandon.Allen_at_OneNeck.com] Sent: Thursday, June 30, 2005 1:39 PM
To: Post, Ethan; Oracle-L_at_Freelists. Org (E-mail) Subject: RE: Unindexed FK Cause Deadlock or Only Share Lock?

Yes, unindexed FKs can absolutely cause deadlocks. I recently had a problem with this happening frequently for an application called Khameleon. After adding FK indexes, the deadlocks vanished.

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