Dear All, Why these many DDL locks? Is something wrong in this environment? Or it is normal to have 20k+ locks? If it is not okay where should I start investigating this issue? Oracle8i Enterprise Edition Release 8.1.7.3.0 - Production With the Partitioning and Parallel Server options JServer Release 8.1.7.3.0 - Production SQL> select count(*) from dba_ddl_locks; COUNT(*) ---------- 21318 SQL> select count(*) from dba_dml_locks; COUNT(*) ---------- 3 SQL> ---------------------------------------------------------------- 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 -----------------------------------------------------------------