Re: Lock table and disallow select

I agree with Raj - why does your user want to do this? Nobody will see the changes until a commit occurs anyway.

Jay Hostetter
Oracle DBA
D. & E. Communications
Ephrata, PA USA

>>> john.dunn_at_sefas.co.uk 02/14/03 10:04AM >>> Query from user. can the following be done in PL/SQL?

> I need to be able to lock a table in such a way that not only can no other
> session alter any records in the table, but they cannot read the table at
> all (i.e. do SELECTs on it) until I'm done with it.
>
> Any SELECT statements would pause until I release the lock.
>
> Is such a thing possible?

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