And usually they are caused by app. design issues, not database issues. Of course, unless you are dealing with MS SQL Server.
Igor Neyman, OCP DBA [EMAIL PROTECTED] The degree of normality in a database is inversely proportional to that of its DBA. ----- Original Message ----- To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, March 22, 2002 2:08 PM > Hi, > > Deadlocks happen for N number of reasons. Please post > the deadlock graph for further investigation. > > > Best Regards, > K Gopalakrishnan > Bangalore, INDIA > > > > -----Original Message----- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, March 22, 2002 10:38 AM > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L > > > Is anyone having deadlocking issues with the 8.1.7.2 release of Oracle? > > If you are, how serious are these errors? What are the consequences > of the deadlock error messages. How long does it actually take to > clean up the deadlocks? Does one of the transactions roll back? > Does it then reissue later? I've opened a TAR but support seems unable > to answer these questions to my satisfaction and I can't find this > particular > problem documented on Metalink. Maybe I'm not searching on the > right thing. The error number seems to have very little information > associated > with it. > > We are doing some advance testing of an upgrade from 8.0.4 to 8.1.7.2 > of a data warehouse. We are using partitioning, the STAR_TRANSFORMATION > set to true, otherwise, a fairly typical database. > > We are using version 2.6 of Sun Solaris, EMC disk, and Veritas volume > manager. > > During testing of two data load scripts, we get recurring deadlock errors > on > the 8.1.7.2 test database. We can reproduce these errors every time we > run these scripts togethe > > In our current 8.0.4 database, we run the two scripts together and it is > not an option > to run them sequentially, instead of concurrently, since we don't have a > long enough > window to run them concurrently. > > Thanks in advance for any help. > > Cherie Machler > Oracle DBA > Gelco Information Network > > -- > Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com > -- > Author: > INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Fat City Network Services -- (858) 538-5051 FAX: (858) 538-5051 > San Diego, California -- Public Internet access / Mailing Lists > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message > to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in > the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L > (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may > also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing). > > _________________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com > > -- > Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com > -- > Author: K Gopalakrishnan > INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Fat City Network Services -- (858) 538-5051 FAX: (858) 538-5051 > San Diego, California -- Public Internet access / Mailing Lists > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message > to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in > the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L > (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may > also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing). -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Igor Neyman INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services -- (858) 538-5051 FAX: (858) 538-5051 San Diego, California -- Public Internet access / Mailing Lists -------------------------------------------------------------------- To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing).