okay - must have locked it with some other statement without realizing. Many thanks to all

At 09:38 24/11/2004 -0700, Reidy, Ron wrote:
No. COMMIT is a transactional statement. In Oracle, readers do not block writers.

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Ron Reidy
Lead DBA
Array BioPharma, Inc.


-----Original Message----- From: Mark Martin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 24, 2004 9:26 AM To: Ronald J Kimball Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Why wont my script finish?


Brilliant - that's it! Thank you!

Would SELECTs lock up a record without a commit statement?

Mark

At 11:15 24/11/2004 -0500, Ronald J Kimball wrote:
>Mark Martin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >
> > 49620 rows deleted in ~ 15 seconds.
> > ( I have tried the delete from DBI on varying subsets of data all the way
> > down to 1 record (the only delete that works))
> >
>
>Might you have one of the rows you're trying to delete from DBI locked in
>SQLPLUS?  Make sure you commit in SQLPLUS to release any locks you're
>holding.
>
>Ronald


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