Hi Austin
I dont know wether it can be done from the DB or not...
But you can do it from your application by setting a flag
when ever an update is happening and selecting only those
records which doesn't hjave this flag set.
Regards,
Mohan
Kris Austin wrote:
>
> hi list,
>
> how can you prevent another session from selecting from the table until
> your update has committed?
>
> we have a procedure that is querying and updating the table as one
> transaction. theoretically, we'd like to prevent any other session from
> accessing that table.
>
> is this possible? we cannot limit the oracle account to one session. many
> sessions need to be open since this is an ecommerce database application.
>
> we are running oracle 8.1.6 on solaris.
>
> thanks!
> kris
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