Hi everyone, The following simple join query on one of our business critical RAC databases with two instances was frequently leading into a dead lock situation ultimately a causing database hang scenario: SELECT u.u_user_id, u..u_mcr_cust_id FROM table1 U,table2 A WHERE A.UCS_CHNL_ID = :b1 AND A.UCS_LOGIN_NAME = :b2 AND A.UCS_USER_ID = U.U_USER_ID FOR UPDATE execution plan as follows: | Id | Operation | Name | Rows | Bytes | Cost (%CPU)| Time | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | 0 | SELECT STATEMENT | | | | 3 (100)| | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | 1 | FOR UPDATE | | | | | | | 2 | NESTED LOOPS | | 1 | 43 | 3 (0)| 00:00:01 | | 3 | TABLE ACCESS BY INDEX ROWID| table1 | 1 | 27 | 2 (0)| 00:00:01 | | 4 | INDEX UNIQUE SCAN | USER_CHANNEL_SUBSCRIPTION_FK4 | 1 | | 1 (0)| 00:00:01 | | 5 | TABLE ACCESS BY INDEX ROWID| table1 | 11883 | 185K| 1 (0)| 00:00:01 | | 6 | INDEX UNIQUE SCAN | table1_PK | 1 | | 0 (0)| | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Best Regards, Syed Jaffar Hussain