Is this a bitmap index? On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 8:46 PM, Ram Raman <veeeraman@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi > > After getting complaints about slow process we found out that one user's > session was blocking another user's session. I found out that the waiter's > session was waiting to acquire a lock on an index. This is based on data > from v$session of the waiting session. > > The index was built/rebuilt about 10 months ago - it could not have been > index rebuild that could have caused the lock. I tried googling to find more > information about locking of indexes but not able to find anything that can > help me. ver 10.2. Can anyone explain or point to information on index > locking. > > Thanks. -- Toon Koppelaars RuleGen BV Toon.Koppelaars@xxxxxxxxxxx www.RuleGen.com TheHelsinkiDeclaration.blogspot.com (co)Author: "Applied Mathematics for Database Professionals" www.rulegen.com/am4dp-backcover-text