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    Selecting a (Blocking) Locked Row

    How would I select a locked row blocking another session?

    This db is 7.3.4
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    dba_blockers will help to find the blocking sessions.

    blocking rows ....?

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    Yup, The rowid(s) of the row(s) being locked. I'd like to look at the row to figure out who's row it is, then wake that person up.

    Maybe the SQL used to lock the row blocking other sessions.
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    If a session is actually waiting on a locked row, you can identify on which row (it's ROWID) it is waitin for by looking in combination of V$SESSION's columns ROW_WAIT_FILE#, ROW_WAIT_BLOCK# and ROW_WAIT_ROW# of that waiting session.
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    OK, here's what I have so far, how do I make the leap to getting the rowid?

    select
    b.machine host,
    b.username username,
    b.server,
    b.osuser os_user,
    b.program program,
    a.tablespace_name ts_name,
    row_wait_file# file_nbr,
    row_wait_block# block_nbr,
    c.owner,
    c.segment_name,
    c.segment_type
    from dba_data_files a,
    v$session b,
    dba_extents c
    where b.row_wait_file# = a.file_id
    and c.file_id = row_wait_file#
    and row_wait_block# between c.block_id
    and c.block_id + c.blocks - 1
    and row_wait_file# <> 0
    and type='USER';
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    Code:
    Select 
    /* Will not be applicable for Inserts */
      T.Rowid  ,
      T.* 
    From 
      My_Table T
    Where 
      (
       DBMS_ROWID.ROWID_RELATIVE_FNO(T.Rowid), 
       DBMS_ROWID.ROWID_BLOCK_NUMBER(T.Rowid), 
       DBMS_ROWID.ROWID_ROW_NUMBER(T.Rowid)
      )
                     IN
      (
       Select
         S.ROW_WAIT_FILE#     ,
         S.ROW_WAIT_BLOCK#    ,
         S.ROW_WAIT_ROW#
       From
         V$session S
       Where
         S.Sid = 'My_Locked_Sid' and
         S.ROW_WAIT_OBJ# != -1
      )                                   And
    /* This part is to limit the search criteria in the table */
      Rowid In
      (
       Select
         A.Rowid
       From
         A.My_Table, .... 
       Where
         * My_Where_Condition_From_V$SqlText joined with My_table *
      )
    This may be helpful am not sure..

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    Code:
    set echo off
    set feed off
    set verify off
    
    select a.sid BLOCKER, ' blocks ' || b.sid BLOCKED
      from v$lock a, v$lock b
     where a.id1 = b.id1
       and a.id2 = b.id2
       and a.block = 1 
       and b.request > 0;
    
    accept blocker prompt 'Specify blocker sid: '
    accept locker prompt 'Specify blocked sid: '
    
    set termout off
    column username new_value username
    column wait_obj new_value wait_obj
    column wait_file new_value wait_file
    column wait_block new_value wait_block
    column wait_row new_value wait_row
    select sid, 
           username,
           row_wait_obj# wait_obj, 
           row_wait_file# wait_file, 
           row_wait_block# wait_block, 
           row_wait_row# wait_row
      from v$session 
     where sid = &locker;
    column objname new_value objname noprint
    select owner ||'.'|| object_name objname
      from dba_objects
     where object_id = &wait_obj;
    set termout on
    
    prompt 
    prompt &username with sid &blocker is blocking following data in &objname
    select *
      from &objname
     where rowid = dbms_rowid.rowid_create( 1, &wait_obj, &wait_file, &wait_block, &wait_row );

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    RowID_Create Proc is cool, didnt know much abt it.. thx Pando
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    DBMS_ROWID package? Wasn't the original question about Oracle 7.3.4 ?

    Ken, as I said V$SESSION's ROW_WAIT_FILE#, ROW_WAIT_BLOCK# and ROW_WAIT_ROW# uniquely identify the row being locked for - in pre-Oracle8 database those three components constitute the ROWID. The rowid is constituted like this: BLOCK.ROW.FILE. When converted to character type, each of the three parts is converted to hexadecimal notation with leading zeroes, with string lengths 8, 4, 4 respectively. So for example rowid 000000A5.0000.0001 means that the this is a first row ('0000', row numbering starting from 0!) of the 165th block ('000000A5') in the first datafile ('0001'). So onec you write your own DECIMAL_TO_HEX function (or find one on the internet - Tom Kyte used to have a nice and universal one), all you need to get the rowid of the blocking row is:

    LPAD(decimal_to_hex(b.row_wait_block#),8,'0') || '.' ||
    LPAD(decimal_to_hex(b.row_wait_row#),4,'0') || '.' ||
    LPAD(decimal_to_hex(b.row_wait_file#),4,'0')

    If you want to convert that to ROWID datatype, simply use CHARTOROWID() built-in function.
    Last edited by jmodic; 02-28-2004 at 11:31 AM.
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    Thank you, this problem is on 7.3.4

    I really apreciate everyone's help and insight. Great forum.
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