Re: lock ?

You can query V$LOCK or V$LOCKED_OBJECT to see what is locked. The only way to release those locks is to kill the session that is hold the locks. You'll need the session_id (SID) and the serial# (from V$SESSION). Then to kill the session, issue the following:

ALTER SYSTEM KILL SESSION 'session_id,serial#';

HTH,
Brian

search wrote:
>
> The guys from our database provider told us that there was a lock on one of
> our tables.
> It was fixed in 2 minutes.
>
> They won't provide us the information how you can see how a table is locked
> and how to unlock them ?
> Can some-one of you provide me more information.
>
> We use oracle 8.1.7 database.
>
> many thx
>
> Gerry

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