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Resolving Blocking Locks Held by Inactive Sessions (Doc ID 1937063.1)

Last updated on JANUARY 10, 2025

Applies to:

Oracle Database - Enterprise Edition - Version 7.0.16.0 and later
Oracle Database - Standard Edition - Version 7.0.16.0 and later
Oracle Database - Personal Edition - Version 7.1.4.0 and later
Information in this document applies to any platform.

Purpose

Sometimes, situations will be encountered where an inactive session holds a lock that blocks other sessions.  This article points at other articles that can help with this situation. It does not look into why inactive processes might be holding resources as this is out of the scope of this article and is covered in other articles.

 

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