ORA-00069 cannot acquire lock

Question

Hi, I am getting the Oracle Database error "ORA-00069 cannot acquire lock -- table locks disabled for string" in a stored proc. According to [some sites|http://oratip.com/] I looked at, it says the Cause is "A command was issued that tried to lock the table indicated in the message. Examples of commands that can lock tables are: LOCK TABLE, ALTER TABLE ... ADD (...), and so on.". And the Action they suggest is "Use the ALTER TABLE ... ENABLE TABLE LOCK command, and retry the command".
I am not doing either a lock table or alter table command in my procedure, so what else could be causing this?
Thank you for any help. Sorry if this is an easy one, but I am new to Oracle.
Edited by: user2033444 on Jul 31, 2010 3:57 PM

Answer 1

user2033444 wrote:
Hi, I am getting the Oracle Database error "ORA-00069 cannot acquire lock -- table locks disabled for string" in a stored proc. According to [some sites|http://oratip.com/] I looked at, it says the Cause is "A command was issued that tried to lock the table indicated in the message. Examples of commands that can lock tables are: LOCK TABLE, ALTER TABLE ... ADD (...), and so on.". And the Action they suggest is "Use the ALTER TABLE ... ENABLE TABLE LOCK command, and retry the command".
I am not doing either a lock table or alter table command in my procedure, so what else could be causing this?
Thank you for any help. Sorry if this is an easy one, but I am new to Oracle.
Edited by: user2033444 on Jul 31, 2010 3:57 PMCare to share what the stored procedure that encounters this error looks like?