Re: Ora 04020 - deadlock detected while trying to lock object

A copy of this was sent to "Alan Formstone" <aformstone_at_us.lhsgroup.com> (if that email address didn't require changing) On Mon, 25 Oct 1999 15:50:37 -0400, you wrote:

>An application is trying to insert into a table and gets the above error.
>

are you using declaritive integrity? do you have your foreign keys indexed? See the URL in my signature for a short paper "Unindexed Foreign Keys -- why they might be bad and how to detect them"

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Opinions are mine and do not necessarily reflect those of Oracle Corporation Received on Mon Oct 25 1999 - 15:21:54 CDT