Re: Locking over a DB link

On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 12:47 PM, Jason Heinrich <jheinrichdba_at_gmail.com>wrote:

> I was wondering if it was possible for SQL similar to the following to
> cause a lock to be created on the remote database:
>
> insert into localtable
> (select columns from remotetable_at_dblink where <some condition>);
>
> My first reaction was no, but I thought I remembered locking oddities over
> links being discussed before. So far I haven't found anything useful in my
> searches though.
>
>

Why not test it?

I just ran a test of this using a 9i database as the local db, and a 10g database
as the remote db.

No persistent locking took place on the remote db.

Jared

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