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This appendix describes the enqueues and locks that are used by Oracle. Locks and Note that resources are different structures used by Oracle, but sometimes the names are not used correctly. A resource uniquely identifies a certain object that can be locked by different sessions within an instance (Local Resource) or between instances (Global Resource). Each session will have a lock structure on the resource if it tries to lock the resource. Topics covered in this appendix include:
Table B-1 contains a list of the enqueues and locks that are used by Oracle. .
Note: The names of enqueues and locks and their definitions may change from release to release.