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  1. #1
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    Greetings,

    Can you find out if a row is locked, who has locked this row?
    I need to display a username when a row in a table is locked..

    Regards

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    There may be two data dictionary views that can help you in your search. The view names are dba_blockers and dba_waiters and are created by running catblock.sql from $OH/rdbms/admin. You can then decipher the session id's from v$session to determine the username.
    Jeff Hunter

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    Thanks for the reply..

    Is it also possible to get the row # or ROWID which is locked..
    This is the scenario..

    There is a table Fred has a primary key emp_no,
    I try to lock the row emp_no = 20 to update by doing 'select for update nowait' but it turned out it is locked I want to know this row is locked by which user inorder to display information to the user..

    How can I do that?

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    AFAIK there is no way to find out who is holding lock on a particular row. This information is written in the database block header only, it can not be obtained from any dictionary view or even from any system's fixed table (X$*).
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  5. #5
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    Please try using v$locked_object table.

    Hope this helps u.

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    Originally posted by miritika

    Please try using v$locked_object table.

    Hope this helps u.
    This only displays which session has a lock on which table, you can't get the information *which row* is locked by which session. There is no way to find out which row is locked by which session, unless you do a database block dump read it from there. But I don't think this is a very usefull way to get this info....
    Jurij Modic
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