Friday, October 18, 2013

ORA-00054: resource busy and acquire with NOWAIT specified or timeout expired


The ‘ORA-00054: resource busy and acquire with NOWAIT specified or timeout expired’ error can probably be avoided on a running system by setting the session ddl_lock_timeout e.g. ‘alter session set ddl_lock_timeout=5;’ will tell Oracle to retry for 5 seconds.

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