Less09 locking

9
Managing Data Concurrency

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Objectives

After completing this lesson, you should be able to:
• Describe the locking mechanism and how Oracle manages
data concurrency
• Monitor and resolve locking conflicts

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Locks

• Prevent multiple sessions from changing the same data at
the same time
• Are automatically obtained at the lowest possible level for
a given statement
• Do not escalate

Transaction 1 Transaction 2
SQL> UPDATE employees SQL> UPDATE employees
2 SET salary=salary+100 2 SET salary=salary*1.1
3 WHERE employee_id=100; 3 WHERE employee_id=100;


Locking Mechanism

• High level of data concurrency:
– Row-level locks for inserts, updates, and deletes
– No locks required for queries
• Automatic queue management
• Locks held until the transaction ends (with the COMMIT or
ROLLBACK operation)
Example
Assume that the rows for employee_id 100 and 101 reside in the same
block:

2 SET salary=salary+100 2 SET salary=salary*1.1
3 WHERE employee_id=100; 3 WHERE employee_id=101;


Data Concurrency

Time: Transaction 1 UPDATE hr.employees
SET salary=salary+100
WHERE employee_id=100;

Transaction 2 UPDATE hr.employees
09:00:00 Transaction 3 UPDATE hr.employees

... ...
Transaction x UPDATE hr.employees
WHERE employee_id=xxx;


DML Locks

2 SET salary=salary*1.1 2 SET salary=salary*1.1
3 WHERE employee_id= 107; 3 WHERE employee_id= 106;
1 row updated. 1 row updated.

Each DML transaction must acquire two locks:
• EXCLUSIVE row lock on the row or rows being updated
• Table lock (TM) in ROW EXCLUSIVE (RX) mode on the
table containing the rows


Enqueue Mechanism

The enqueue mechanism keeps track of:
• Sessions waiting for locks
• Requested lock mode
• Order in which sessions requested the lock


Lock Conflicts

Transaction 1 Time Transaction 2
UPDATE employees SET 9:00:00 UPDATE employees SET
salary=salary+100 WHERE salary=salary+100 WHERE
employee_id=100; employee_id=101;
1 row updated. 1 row updated.
UPDATE employees SET 9:00:05 SELECT sum(salary) FROM
COMMISION_PCT=2 WHERE employees;
employee_id=101; SUM(SALARY)
Session waits enqueued due to -----------
lock conflict. 692634
Session still waiting! Many selects, inserts, updates,
16:30:00 and deletes during the last 7.5
hours, but no commits or
rollbacks!
1 row updated. 16:30:01 commit;
Session continues.


Possible Causes of Lock Conflicts

• Uncommitted changes
• Long-running transactions
• Unnecessarily high locking levels

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Detecting Lock Conflicts

Select Blocking Sessions on the Performance page.

Click the Session ID link to view information about the locking
session, including the actual SQL statement.


Resolving Lock Conflicts

To resolve a lock conflict:
• Have the session holding the lock commit or roll back
• Terminate the session holding the lock (in an emergency)


Resolving Lock Conflicts with SQL

SQL statements can be used to determine the blocking session
and kill it.

SQL> select SID, SERIAL#, USERNAME
1 from V$SESSION where SID in
(select BLOCKING_SESSION from V$SESSION)

Result:

2 SQL> alter system kill session '144,8982' immediate;


Deadlocks


UPDATE employees UPDATE employees
SET salary = salary x 1.1 9:00 SET manager = 1342
WHERE employee_id = 1000; WHERE employee_id = 2000;
UPDATE employees UPDATE employees
SET salary = salary x 1.1 9:15 SET manager = 1342
WHERE employee_id = 2000; WHERE employee_id = 1000;
ORA-00060:
Deadlock detected while 9:16
waiting for resource


Quiz

The lock mechanism defaults to a fine-grained, row-level
locking mode.
1. True
2. False


Quiz

When the deadlock occurs, Oracle database automatically:
1. Waits 300 seconds before terminating both sessions
2. Terminates one statement with an error in one session
3. Terminates the statements with an error in both sessions
4. Takes no action by default and leaves it to DBA


Summary

In this lesson, you should have learned how to:
• Describe the locking mechanism and how Oracle manages
data concurrency
• Monitor and resolve locking conflicts


Practice 9 Overview:
Managing Data and Concurrency
This practice covers the following topics:
• Identifying locking conflicts
• Resolving locking conflicts


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