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Tanel Poder wrote:
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>>Uwe, >>You DO NOT know what you are talking about. >>1. Oracle DOES NOT ever lock tables. Applications can lock tables for >>update but Oracle DOES NOT EVER escallate locks to the block or table >>level. So, no matter how much data txt a inserts, updates, or deletes, >>txn b will NOT wait for txn a to commit or rollback.