RE: Deadlocks on lack of Foreign key indexes ...

2002-09-27 Thread Johnson, Michael
Jared, Thank You . Tom Kytes book pages 108 to 111 goes into this. I will continue to follow this advice. Mike -Original Message- Sent: Friday, September 27, 2002 8:43 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L I always use indexes on FK's. If it's a table with many

Deadlocks on lack of Foreign key indexes ...

2002-09-26 Thread Johnson, Michael
Does anyone consider it essential to put indexes on Foreign Keys or is it just an option to safeguard against the rare possiblity of a deadlock ? Is this possibility real and have you seen it happen ? I am one who does not want to create a foreign index as their is already one wih a leading