FYI, This may follow what Brandon brought up. I was on a HOTSOS presentation where they were talking about a client who had a PO job taking forever (I don't think they mentioned deadlocks). Looking at what they found to be the problem code they created an index that reduced the time to minutes. This was for Oracle Apps or PS. I don't remember which. I asked if they had "canned" solutions for particular applications and they said "No", this solution was unique to that client. HTH Larry Wolfson -----Original Message----- From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Allen, Brandon Sent: Friday, September 16, 2005 11:33 AM To: peterdixon001@xxxxxxxxxxx; oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: RE: Tuning deadlocks Another common fix for deadlocks is to index your foreign keys (thus allowing Oracle to lock less aggressively). This made a huge difference in an application that I work with regularly (Khameleon). Regards, Brandon Privileged/Confidential Information may be contained in this message or attachments hereto. Please advise immediately if you or your employer do not consent to Internet email for messages of this kind. Opinions, conclusions and other information in this message that do not relate to the official business of this company shall be understood as neither given nor endorsed by it. -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l ************************************************************************** The information contained in this communication is confidential, is intended only for the use of the recipient named above, and may be legally privileged. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please resend this communication to the sender and delete the original message or any copy of it from your computer system. Thank You. ************************************************************************** -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l