On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 6:22 AM, Walker, Jed S <Jed_Walker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > wrote: > It would sit, unless you have a profile (or semething else –FW timeout, > etc) that would kill it. > > > > Oracle takes care of deadlocks by killing one of the sessions. If the user > holds a lock (and there is no deadlock) then it will just sit there until > the session is killed (this is why they gave us “shutdown immediate”) > Just to clarify for newbies out there, what I think you are referring to is that prior to the availability of 'shutdown immediate', shutting down the database when there were open transactions required a shutdown abort. Jared Still Certifiable Oracle DBA and Part Time Perl Evangelist Oracle Blog: http://jkstill.blogspot.com Home Page: http://jaredstill.com