RE: locking tables

You can lock a table with:

lock table scott.emp in exclusive mode

This should lock that table for the session you are in, not sure what permissions you need for it though?

Mark

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hi list,

how can you prevent another session from selecting from the table until your update has committed?

we have a procedure that is querying and updating the table as one transaction. theoretically, we'd like to prevent any other session from accessing that table.

is this possible? we cannot limit the oracle account to one session. many sessions need to be open since this is an ecommerce database application.

we are running oracle 8.1.6 on solaris.

thanks!
kris

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