lockwt - My go to utility for finding locking problems

Friday, 22 June 2012

If you haven't already added lockwt to your arsenal of Informix DBA tools, you need to immediately.

lockwt is a free utility written by Eric Herber of the The Informix Zone, planetIDS and Herber Consulting that can be downloaded here and is infinitely helpful when you get the midnight call to find out why a table is locked and everyone is screaming.

I recently received one of these calls and when I fired up the lockwt utility I quickly confirmed that there was a locking issue. A session had a hold of a row that other sessions needed and wouldn't let go which was causing all kinds of problems. I have a love/ha...

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