Yes ... because you are doing a transaction. Row count 0 is the result, but at that time transaction is still in uncommitted state. Please issue a commit or a rollback to complete the transaction ..
Raj
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-----Original Message-----
From: John Dunn [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, January 15, 2003 11:29 AM
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
Subject: oracle locking question
> When doing an update that fails to update any rows, does a Rollback or a
> Commit need to be done at the end?
>
> We have a problem with some code where an update is attempted, but after
> the SQL command has run SQL%ROWCOUNT = 0 so no rows were updated. The
> program does not then perform a Commit or Rollback. This appears to be
> causing some locking problems, but how can any thing be locked if no rows
> were updated?
>
Platform is 8.1.7
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