I think you just have to go on doing what you are doing - use google, metalink and tahiti to search on a couple of critical key words, then read any documents you find. Always treat any documents with a little suspicion, unless they contain guidelines on how to reproduce the results - as Arup's did - then you can either confirm the documents, or report the discrepancies and ask for clarification. There are always a few documents around that make some noises about internals and structures, but they are almost always (a) out of date, or (b) special cases or (c) simplifications or (d) ambiguous or (e) wrong or (f) all of the above. (I include my own work in a, b, and c - I try to avoid d, e, and f). Regards Jonathan Lewis http://www.jlcomp.demon.co.uk The educated person is not the person who can answer the questions, but the person who can question the answers -- T. Schick Jr Next public appearances: March 2004 Hotsos Symposium - The Burden of Proof March 2004 Charlotte NC OUG - CBO Tutorial April 2004 Iceland One-day tutorials: http://www.jlcomp.demon.co.uk/tutorial.html Three-day seminar: see http://www.jlcomp.demon.co.uk/seminar.html ____UK___February ____UK___June The Co-operative Oracle Users' FAQ http://www.jlcomp.demon.co.uk/faq/ind_faq.html ----- Original Message ----- From: "Naveen, Nahata (IE10)" <Naveen.Nahata@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2004 11:20 AM Subject: RE: How do commits release row level locks? Thanx Jonathan, I did understand what you said, but still have a few questions regarding this. Are there any FMs or metalink notes from where I can get information on this subject so that I only come up with smart questions? Regards Naveen ---------------------------------------------------------------- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com ---------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe send email to: oracle-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put 'unsubscribe' in the subject line. -- Archives are at //www.freelists.org/archives/oracle-l/ FAQ is at //www.freelists.org/help/fom-serve/cache/1.html -----------------------------------------------------------------