:-) Sorry, just call it lazy... Funny though that I encountered those while using the Oracle XMLDB Protocol Server (XDB Repository / HTTP, WebDAV access). I got daemon processes that lock underlying XDB tables while being "oracle.exe (shad)" ________________________________ Van: Tanel Poder [mailto:tanel@xxxxxxxxxx] Verzonden: wo 22-4-2009 16:57 Aan: Marco Gralike; 'oracle-l-freelists' Onderwerp: RE: Lock Type in V$LOCK V$LOCK_TYPE is a good starting point! SQL> select type,name,description from v$lock_type where type in ('AE', 'TO'); TYPE NAME DESCRIPTION ---- -------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------ AE Edition Lock Prevent Dropping an edition in use TO Temp Object Synchronizes DDL and DML operations on a temp object AE is about application code versioning (editions) which should be released as part of Oracle 11.2 I think. TO is about temp tables so someone wouldn't be able to drop or alter the structure of the table def while there's some other session having data in the temp tab. -- Tanel Poder http://blog.tanelpoder.com <http://blog.tanelpoder.com/> ________________________________ From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Marco Gralike Sent: 22 April 2009 21:48 To: oracle-l-freelists Subject: Lock Type in V$LOCK I have encountered, for me, two new lock types from v$lock (Oracle 11g) Does anyone now whats related to types "AE" and "TO" ? (and in my case "AE" is not OMS/Oracle agent related) Thanks! Marco