oracle lock 05 - overview of Automatic Locks

Oracle Database automatically locks a resource on behalf of a transaction to prevent other transactions from doing something that requires exclusive access to the same resource. The database automatically acquires different types of locks at different levels of restrictiveness depending on the resource and the operation being performed.

注意：The database never locks rows when performing simple reads.

Oracle Database locks are divided into the following categories.

Lock	Description
DML Locks	Protect data. For example, table locks lock entire tables, while row locks lock selected rows.
DDL Locks	Protect the structure of schema objects—for example, the dictionary definitions of tables and views.
System Locks	Protect internal database structures such as data files. Latches, mutexes, and internal locks are entirely automatic.

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