Am Dienstag, den 04.09.2007, 11:19 -0700 schrieb Jared Still: > On 9/4/07, Jost, Jörg <Joerg.Jost@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > At some important points this application locks rows with > dbms_lock. > > The lockname is the rowid of the row. Sometimes an evil user > stays > forever at this row and other users are unable to change it. > > > Just curious - what's wrong with 'SELECT FOR UPDATE' ? Thats a good question. If i ask the Dev-Team, they say, it is easier to handle with the dbms_lock. There is also a historically reason, because our app was not developed under Oracle in the past. Our application is something twosided. On the Terminalserver runs a software called Unify. That part is making problems anywhere. So there can be a reason too. Bye Jörg OCP 10gR2 -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l