Oracle 队列锁类型 Oracle Enqueue Lock Type Reference including 11g new locks

内部视图x$ksqst记录了以enqueue type分类的队列管理统计信息(Enqueue management statistics by type)，ksqstwat列反映了等待次数，而ksqstwtim列反映了累积等待时间，实际上v$enqueue_stat动态性能视图的CUM_WAIT_TIME列数据也来源于ksqstwtim:

SQL> select * from v$fixed_view_definition where view_name=upper('gv$enqueue_stat');

VIEW_NAME
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VIEW_DEFINITION
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GV$ENQUEUE_STAT
select inst_id, ksqsttyp, sum(ksqstreq), sum(ksqstwat), sum(ksqstsgt),
 sum(ksqstfgt), sum(ksqstwtm)    from X$KSQST group by inst_id, ksqsttyp having
sum(ksqstreq) > 0

SQL> desc X$KSQST
 Name                                      Null?    Type
 ----------------------------------------- -------- ----------------------------
 ADDR                                               RAW(8)
 INDX                                               NUMBER
 INST_ID                                            NUMBER
 KSQSTTYP                                           VARCHAR2(2)
 KSQSTREQ                                           NUMBER
 KSQSTWAT                                           NUMBER
 KSQSTSGT                                           NUMBER
 KSQSTFGT                                           NUMBER
 KSQSTWTM                                           NUMBER
 KSQSTRSN                                           VARCHAR2(64)
 KSQSTEXPL                                          VARCHAR2(4000)
 KSQSTEVIDX                                         NUMBER

SQL> select * from v$version;

BANNER
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Oracle Database 11g Enterprise Edition Release 11.2.0.2.0 - 64bit Production
PL/SQL Release 11.2.0.2.0 - Production
CORE    11.2.0.2.0      Production
TNS for Linux: Version 11.2.0.2.0 - Production
NLSRTL Version 11.2.0.2.0 - Production

/* 11g中引入了大量新的enqueue类型，在这里列出 */

SQL> select  KSQSTTYP,KSQSTEXPL from x$ksqst group by  KSQSTTYP,KSQSTEXPL order by KSQSTTYP;

	(null)
AB	Lock held to ensure that ABMR process is initialized
AB	Lock held to ensure that only one ABMR is started in the cluster
AD	Synchronizes accesses to a specific ASM disk AU
AE	Prevent Dropping an edition in use
AF	This enqueue is used to serialize access to an advisor task
AG	Synchronizes generation use of a particular workspace
AM	ASM group block
AM	Allow one ASM password file update per cluster at a time
AM	Allow only one AMDU dump when block read failure
AM	Block ASM cache freeze
AM	Check id1 of call for specific purpose
AM	Client group use
AM	Prevent DB instance registration during ASM instance shutdown
AM	Prevent same file deletion race
AM	Prevents a user from being dropped if it owns any open files
AM	Registers DB instance to ASM client state object hash
AM	Reserve a background COD entry
AM	Reserve a rollback COD entry
AM	Serializes access to ASM file descriptors
AM	Serializes block repairs
AM	Start ASM cache freeze
AM	Synchronizes disk based allocations/deallocations
AM	Synchronizes disk offlines
AO	Synchornizes access to objects and scalar variables
AS	Synchronizes new service activation
AT	Serializes ‘alter tablespace’ operations
AV	Serialize inst reg and first DG use
AV	Serialize relocating volume extents
AV	Serialize taking the AVD DG enqueue
AV	prevent DG number collisions
AW	Global access synchronization to the AW$ table
AW	In-use generation state for a particular workspace
AW	Row lock synchronization for the AW$ table
AW	Synchronizes user accesses to a particular workspace
AY	Affinity Dictionary test affinity synchronization
BB	2PC distributed transaction branch across RAC instances
BF	Allocate a bloom filter in a parallel statement
BF	PMON bloom filter recovery
BR	Lock held to allow cleanup from backup mode during an RMAN proxy-copy backup
BR	Lock held to perform a new controlfile autobackup
BR	Lock held to prevent file from decreasing in physical size during RMAN backup
BR	Lock held to prevent multiple process to update the headers at the same time
BR	Lock held to request controlfile autobackups
BR	Lock held to serialize file header access during multi-section restore
BR	Lock held to serialize section access during multi-section restore
CA	Synchronizes various IO calibration runs
CF	Synchronizes accesses to the controlfile
CI	Coordinates cross-instance function invocations
CL	Synchronizes accesses to label cache for label comparison
CL	Synchronizes accesses to label cache when dropping a label
CM	indicate ASM diskgroup is mounted
CM	serialize access to instance enqueue
CM	serialize asm diskgroup dismount
CN	during descriptor initialization
CN	during registration
CN	during transaction commit to see concurrent registrations
CO	enqueue held be Master in Cleanout Optim
CQ	Serializes access to cleanup client query cache registrations
CR	Coordinates fast block range reuse ckpt
CT	Lock held by one instance while change tracking is enabled, to guarantee access to thread-specific resources
CT	Lock held during change tracking space management operations that affect just the data for one thread
CT	Lock held during change tracking space management operations that affect the entire change tracking file
CT	Lock held to ensure that change tracking data remains in existence until a reader is done with it
CT	Lock held to ensure that only one CTWR process is started in a single instance
CT	Lock held while enabling or disabling change tracking in RAC
CT	Lock held while enabling or disabling change tracking, to ensure that it is only enabled or disabled by one user at a time
CU	Recovers cursors in case of death while compiling
CX	Index Specific Lock on CTX index
DB	Synchronizes modification of database wide supplementallogging attributes
DD	Synchronizes local accesses to ASM disk groups
DF	Enqueue held by foreground or DBWR when a datafile is brought online in RAC
DG	Synchronizes accesses to ASM disk groups
DL	Lock to prevent index DDL during direct load
DM	Enqueue held by foreground or DBWR to syncrhonize database mount/open with other operations
DN	Serializes group number generations
DO	Represents an active disk online operation
DO	Synchronizes Staleness Registry creation
DO	Synchronizes disk onlines and their recovery
DO	Synchronizes startup of MARK process
DP	Synchronizes access to LDAP parameters
DR	Serializes the active distributed recovery operation
DS	Prevents a database suspend during LMON reconfiguration
DT	Serializes changing the default temporary table spaceand user creation
DV	Synchronizes access to lower-version Diana (PL/SQL intermediate representation)
DW	Serialize in memory dispenser operations
DX	Serializes tightly coupled distributed transaction branches
FA	Synchronizes accesses to open ASM files
FB	Ensures that only one process can format data blcoks in auto segment space managed tablespaces
FC	LGWR opens an ACD thread
FC	SMON recovers an ACD thread
FD	Synchronization
FE	Serializes flashback archive recovery
FG	only 1 process in the cluster may do ACD relocation in a disk group
FG	resolve race condition to acquire Disk Group Redo Generation Enqueue
FL	Enqueue used to synchronize Flashback Database and and deletion of flashback logs.
FL	Synchronization
FM	Synchronizes access to global file mapping state
FP	Synchronizes various File Object(FOB) operations
FR	begin recovery of disk group
FR	indicate this ACD thread is alive
FR	wait for lock domain detach
FS	Enqueue used to synchronize recovery and file operations or synchronize dictionary check
FT	allow LGWR to generate redo in this thread
FT	prevent LGWR from generating redo in this thread
FU	This enqueue is used to serialize the capture of the DB Feature           Usage and High Water Mark Statistics
FX	ARB relocates ACD extent
HD	Serializes accesses to ASM SGA data structures
HP	Synchronizes accesses to queue pages
HQ	Synchronizes the creation of new queue IDs
HV	Lock used to broker the high water mark during parallel inserts
HW	Lock used to broker the high water mark during parallel inserts
IA
ID	Lock held to prevent other processes from performing controlfile transaction while NID is running
IL	Synchronizes accesses to internal label data structures
IM	Serializes block recovery for IMU txn
IR	Synchronizes instance recovery
IR	Synchronizes parallel instance recovery and shutdown immediate
IS	Enqueue used to synchronize instance state changes
IT	Synchronizes accesses to a temp object’s metadata
JD	Synchronizes dates between job queue coordinator and slave processes
JI	Lock held during materialized view operations (like refresh, alter) to prevent concurrent operations on the same materialized view
JQ	Lock to prevent multiple instances from running a single job
JS	Lock got during event notification
JS	Lock got when adding subscriber to event q
JS	Lock got when doing window open/close
JS	Lock got when dropping subscriber to event q
JS	Lock obtained when cleaning up q memory
JS	Lock on internal scheduler queue
JS	Lock to prevent job from running elsewhere
JS	Lock to recover jobs running on crashed RAC inst
JS	Scheduler evt code and AQ sync
JS	Scheduler non-global enqueues
JS	Synchronizes accesses to the job cache
JX	statement
JX	release SQL statement resources
KD	Determine DBRM master
KM	Synchronizes various Resource Manager operations
KO	Coordinates fast object checkpoint
KP	Synchronizes kupp process startup
KQ	Synchronization of ASM cached attributes
KT	Synchronizes accesses to the current Resource Manager plan
MD	Lock held during materialized view log DDL statements
MH	Lock used for recovery when setting Mail Host for AQ e-mail notifications
MK	changing values in enc$
ML	Lock used for recovery when setting Mail Port for AQ e-mail notifications
MN	Synchronizes updates to the LogMiner dictionary and prevents multiple instances from preparing the same LogMiner session
MO	Serialize MMON operations for restricted sessions
MR	Lock used to coordinate media recovery with other uses of datafiles
MR	Lock used to disallow concurrent standby role transition attempt
MS	Lock held during materialized view refresh to setup MV log
MV	Held during online datafile move operation or cleanup
MW	This enqueue is used to serialize the calibration of the           manageability schedules with the Maintenance Window
MX	Lock held to generate a response to the storage server information request when an instance is starting up
OC	Synchronizes write accesses to the outline cache
OD	Lock to prevent concurrent online DDLs
OL	Synchronizes accesses to a particular outline name
OQ	Synchronizes access to olapi history allocation
OQ	Synchronizes access to olapi history closing
OQ	Synchronizes access to olapi history flushing
OQ	Synchronizes access to olapi history globals
OQ	Synchronizes access to olapi history parameter CB
OT	CTX Generic Locks
OW	initializing the wallet context
OW	terminate the wallet context
PD	Prevents others from updating the same property
PE	Synchronizes system parameter updates
PF	Synchronizes accesses to the password file
PG	Synchronizes global system parameter updates
PH	Lock used for recovery when setting Proxy for AQ HTTP notifications
PI	Communicates remote Parallel Execution Server Process creation status
PL	Coordinates plug-in operation of transportable tablespaces
PR	Synchronizes process startup
PS	Parallel Execution Server Process reservation and synchronization
PT	Synchronizes access to ASM PST metadata
PV	Synchronizes instance shutdown_slvstart
PV	Synchronizes slave start_shutdown
PW	DBWR 0 holds enqueue indicating prewarmed buffers present in cache
PW	Direct Load needs to flush prewarmed buffers if DBWR 0 holds enqueue
RB	Serializes ASM rollback recovery operations
RC	Coordinates access to a result-set
RD	update RAC load info
RE	Synchronize block repair/resilvering operations
RF	Captures recent Fast-Start Failover Observer heartbeat information
RF	Ensures atomicity of log transport setup
RF	Ensures r/w atomicity of DG configuration metadata
RF	Identifies which configuration metadata file is current
RF	Means for detecting when database is being automatically disabled
RF	Records when FSFO Primary Shutdown is suspended
RF	Synchronizes apply instance failure detection and failover operation
RF	Synchronizes critical apply instance among primary instances
RF	Synchronizes selection of the new apply instance
RK	wallet master key rekey
RL	RAC wallet lock
RN	Coordinates nab computations of online logs during recovery
RO	Coordinates fast object reuse
RO	Coordinates flushing of multiple objects
RP	Enqueue held when resilvering is needed or when datablock is repaired from mirror
RR	Concurrent invocation of DBMS_WORKLOAD_* package API
RS	Lock held to make alert level persistent
RS	Lock held to prevent aging list update
RS	Lock held to prevent deleting file to reclaim space
RS	Lock held to prevent file from accessing during space reclaimation
RS	Lock held to prevent file from accessing while reusing circular record
RS	Lock held to read alert level
RS	Lock held to write alert level
RT	Thread locks held by CKPT to synchronize thread enable and disable
RT	Thread locks held by LGWR, DBW0, and RVWR to indicate mounted or open status
RU	Results of rolling migration CIC
RU	Serializes rolling migration operations
RW	Lock held by CREATE/ALTER/DROP materialized viewwhile updating materialized view flags in detail tables
RX	Synchronizes relocating ASM extents
SB	Synchronizes Logical Standby metadata operations
SB	Synchronizes table instantiation and EDS operations
SE	Synchronizes transparent session migration operations
SF	Lock used for recovery when setting Sender for AQ e-mail notifications
SH	Should seldom see this contention as this Enqueue is always  acquired in no-wait mode
SI	Prevents multiple streams tabel instantiations
SJ	Serializes cancelling task executed by slave process
SK	Serialize shrink of a segment
SL	sending lock escalate to LCK0
SL	sending lock req for undo to LCK0
SL	sending lock req to LCK0
SO	Synchronizes access to Shared Object (PL/SQL Shared Object Manager)
SP	(1) due to one-off patch
SP	(2) due to one-off patch
SP	(3) due to one-off patch
SP	(4) due to one-off patch
SQ	Lock to ensure that only one process can replenish the sequence cache
SR	Coordinates replication / streams operations
SS	Ensures that sort segments created during parallel DML operations aren’t prematurely cleaned up
ST	Synchronizes space management activities in dictionary-managed tablespaces
SU	Serializes access to SaveUndo Segment
SW	Coordinates the ‘alter system suspend’ operation
TA	Serializes operations on undo segments and undo tablespaces
TB	Synchronizes writes to the SQL Tuning Base Existence Cache
TC	Lock held to guarantee uniqueness of a tablespace checkpoint
TC	Lock of setup of a unqiue tablespace checkpoint in null mode
TD	KTF dumping time/scn mappings in SMON_SCN_TIME table
TE	KTF broadcasting
TF	Serializes dropping of a temporary file
TH	Serializes threshold in-memory chain access
TK	Lock held by MMON to prevent other MMON spawning of Autotask Slave
TK	Serializes spawned Autotask Slaves
TL	Serializes threshold log table read and update
TM	Synchronizes accesses to an object
TO	Synchronizes DDL and DML operations on a temp object
TP	Lock held during purge and dynamic reconfiguration of fixed tables.
TQ	Streams DDL on queue table
TQ	TM access to the queue table
TS	Serializes accesses to temp segments
TT	Serializes DDL operations on tablespaces
TW	Lock held by one instance to wait for transactions on all instances to finish
TX	Allocating an ITL entry in order to begin a transaction
TX	Lock held by a transaction to allow other transactions to wait for it
TX	Lock held on a particular row by a transaction to prevent other transactions from modifying it
TX	Lock held on an index during a split to prevent other operations on it
UL	Lock used by user applications
US	Lock held to perform DDL on the undo segment
WA	Lock used for recovery when setting Watermark for memory usage in AQ notifications
WF	This enqueue is used to serialize the flushing of snapshots
WG	acquire lobid local enqueue when deleting fso
WG	acquire lobid local enqueue when locking fso
WL	Coordinates access to redo log files and archive logs
WL	Serialize access to RAC-wide SGA
WL	Serialize access to RFS global state
WL	Testing redo transport access/locking
WM	Synchronizes new WLM Plan activation
WP	This enqueue handles concurrency between purging and baselines
WR	Coordinates access to logs by Async LNS and ARCH/FG
XC	Lock obtained when incrementing XDB configuration version number
XD	Serialize Auto Drop/Add Exadata disk operations
XD	Serialize OFFLINE Exadata disk operations
XD	Serialize ONLINE Exadata disk operations
XH	Lock used for recovery when setting No Proxy Domains for AQ HTTP notifications
XL	Keep multiple processes from faulting in the same extent chunk
XQ	prevent relocation during _recovery_asserts checking
XQ	wait for recovery before doing relocation
XQ	wait for relocation before doing block purification
XR	Lock held during database force logging mode
XR	Lock held during database quiesce
XY	Lock used for internal testing
ZA	lock held to add partition to std audit table
ZF	lock held to add partition to fga audit table
ZG	Coordinates file group operations
ZH	Synchronizes analysis and insert into compression$, prevents multiple threads analyzing the same table during a load
ZZ	lock held for updating global context hash tables

早期metalink上提供的一个lock type list(Values for the TYPE Column: System Types)

Enqueue Type	Description
enq: AD – allocate AU	Synchronizes accesses to a specific OSM disk AU
enq: AD – deallocate AU	Synchronizes accesses to a specific OSM disk AU
enq: AF – task serialization	This enqueue is used to serialize access to an advisor task
enq: AG – contention	Synchronizes generation use of a particular workspace
enq: AO – contention	Synchronizes access to objects and scalar variables
enq: AS – contention	Synchronizes new service activation
enq: AT – contention	Serializes ‘alter tablespace’ operations
enq: AW – AW$ table lock	Global access synchronization to the AW$ table
enq: AW – AW generation lock	In-use generation state for a particular workspace
enq: AW – user access for AW	Synchronizes user accesses to a particular workspace
enq: AW – AW state lock	Row lock synchronization for the AW$ table
enq: BR – file shrink	Lock held to prevent file from decreasing in physical size during RMAN backup
enq: BR – proxy-copy	Lock held to allow cleanup from backup mode during an RMAN proxy-copy backup
enq: CF – contention	Synchronizes accesses to the controlfile
enq: CI – contention	Coordinates cross-instance function invocations
enq: CL – drop label	Synchronizes accesses to label cache when dropping a label
enq: CL – compare labels	Synchronizes accesses to label cache for label comparison
enq: CM – gate	Serialize access to instance enqueue
enq: CM – instance	Indicate OSM disk group is mounted
enq: CT – global space management	Lock held during change tracking space management operations that affect the entire change tracking file
enq: CT – state	Lock held while enabling or disabling change tracking, to ensure that it is only enabled or disabled by one user at a time
enq: CT – state change gate 2	Lock held while enabling or disabling change tracking in RAC
enq: CT – reading	Lock held to ensure that change tracking data remains in existence until a reader is done with it
enq: CT – CTWR process start/stop	Lock held to ensure that only one CTWR process is started in a single instance
enq: CT – state change gate 1	Lock held while enabling or disabling change tracking in RAC
enq: CT – change stream ownership	Lock held by one instance while change tracking is enabled, to guarantee access to thread-specific resources
enq: CT – local space management	Lock held during change tracking space management operations that affect just the data for one thread
enq: CU – contention	Recovers cursors in case of death while compiling
enq: DB – contention	Synchronizes modification of database wide supplemental logging attributes
enq: DD – contention	Synchronizes local accesses to ASM disk groups
enq: DF – contention	Enqueue held by foreground or DBWR when a datafile is brought online in RAC
enq: DG – contention	Synchronizes accesses to ASM disk groups
enq: DL – contention	Lock to prevent index DDL during direct load
enq: DM – contention	Enqueue held by foreground or DBWR to synchronize database mount/open with other operations
enq: DN – contention	Serializes group number generations
enq: DP – contention	Synchronizes access to LDAP parameters
enq: DR – contention	Serializes the active distributed recovery operation
enq: DS – contention	Prevents a database suspend during LMON reconfiguration
enq: DT – contention	Serializes changing the default temporary table space and user creation
enq: DV – contention	Synchronizes access to lower-version Diana (PL/SQL intermediate representation)
enq: DX – contention	Serializes tightly coupled distributed transaction branches
enq: FA – access file	Synchronizes accesses to open ASM files
enq: FB – contention	Ensures that only one process can format data blocks in auto segment space managed tablespaces
enq: FC – open an ACD thread	LGWR opens an ACD thread
enq: FC – recover an ACD thread	SMON recovers an ACD thread
enq: FD – Marker generation	Synchronization
enq: FD – Flashback coordinator	Synchronization
enq: FD – Tablespace flashback on/off	Synchronization
enq: FD – Flashback on/off	Synchronization
enq: FG – serialize ACD relocate	Only 1 process in the cluster may do ACD relocation in a disk group
enq: FG – LGWR redo generation enq race	Resolve race condition to acquire Disk Group Redo Generation Enqueue
enq: FG – FG redo generation enq race	Resolve race condition to acquire Disk Group Redo Generation Enqueue
enq: FL – Flashback database log	Synchronization
enq: FL – Flashback db command	Enqueue used to synchronize Flashback Database and deletion of flashback logs.
enq: FM – contention	Synchronizes access to global file mapping state
enq: FR – contention	Begin recovery of disk group
enq: FS – contention	Enqueue used to synchronize recovery and file operations or synchronize dictionary check
enq: FT – allow LGWR writes	Allow LGWR to generate redo in this thread
enq: FT – disable LGWR writes	Prevent LGWR from generating redo in this thread
enq: FU – contention	This enqueue is used to serialize the capture of the DB Feature, Usage and High Water Mark Statistics
enq: HD – contention	Serializes accesses to ASM SGA data structures
enq: HP – contention	Synchronizes accesses to queue pages
enq: HQ – contention	Synchronizes the creation of new queue IDs
enq: HV – contention	Lock used to broker the high water mark during parallel inserts
enq: HW – contention	Lock used to broker the high water mark during parallel inserts
enq: IA – contention
enq: ID – contention	Lock held to prevent other processes from performing controlfile transaction while NID is running
enq: IL – contention	Synchronizes accesses to internal label data structures
enq: IM – contention for blr	Serializes block recovery for IMU txn
enq: IR – contention	Synchronizes instance recovery
enq: IR – contention2	Synchronizes parallel instance recovery and shutdown immediate
enq: IS – contention	Enqueue used to synchronize instance state changes
enq: IT – contention	Synchronizes accesses to a temp object’s metadata
enq: JD – contention	Synchronizes dates between job queue coordinator and slave processes
enq: JI – contention	Lock held during materialized view operations (like refresh, alter) to prevent concurrent operations on the same materialized view
enq: JQ – contention	Lock to prevent multiple instances from running a single job
enq: JS – contention	Synchronizes accesses to the job cache
enq: JS – coord post lock	Lock for coordinator posting
enq: JS – global wdw lock	Lock acquired when doing wdw ddl
enq: JS – job chain evaluate lock	Lock when job chain evaluated for steps to create
enq: JS – q mem clnup lck	Lock obtained when cleaning up q memory
enq: JS – slave enq get lock2	Get run info locks before slv objget
enq: JS – slave enq get lock1	Slave locks exec pre to sess strt
enq: JS – running job cnt lock3	Lock to set running job count epost
enq: JS – running job cnt lock2	Lock to set running job count epre
enq: JS – running job cnt lock	Lock to get running job count
enq: JS – coord rcv lock	Lock when coord receives msg
enq: JS – queue lock	Lock on internal scheduler queue
enq: JS – job run lock – synchronize	Lock to prevent job from running elsewhere
enq: JS – job recov lock	Lock to recover jobs running on crashed RAC inst
enq: KK – context	Lock held by open redo thread, used by other instances to force a log switch
enq: KM – contention	Synchronizes various Resource Manager operations
enq: KP – contention	Synchronizes kupp process startup
enq: KT – contention	Synchronizes accesses to the current Resource Manager plan
enq: MD – contention	Lock held during materialized view log DDL statements
enq: MH – contention	Lock used for recovery when setting Mail Host for AQ e-mail notifications
enq: ML – contention	Lock used for recovery when setting Mail Port for AQ e-mail notifications
enq: MN – contention	Synchronizes updates to the LogMiner dictionary and prevents multiple instances from preparing the same LogMiner session
enq: MR – contention	Lock used to coordinate media recovery with other uses of datafiles
enq: MS – contention	Lock held during materialized view refresh to setup MV log
enq: MW – contention	This enqueue is used to serialize the calibration of the manageability schedules with the Maintenance Window
enq: OC – contention	Synchronizes write accesses to the outline cache
enq: OL – contention	Synchronizes accesses to a particular outline name
enq: OQ – xsoqhiAlloc	Synchronizes access to olapi history allocation
enq: OQ – xsoqhiClose	Synchronizes access to olapi history closing
enq: OQ – xsoqhistrecb	Synchronizes access to olapi history globals
enq: OQ – xsoqhiFlush	Synchronizes access to olapi history flushing
enq: OQ – xsoq*histrecb	Synchronizes access to olapi history parameter CB
enq: PD – contention	Prevents others from updating the same property
enq: PE – contention	Synchronizes system parameter updates
enq: PF – contention	Synchronizes accesses to the password file
enq: PG – contention	Synchronizes global system parameter updates
enq: PH – contention	Lock used for recovery when setting Proxy for AQ HTTP notifications
enq: PI – contention	Communicates remote Parallel Execution Server Process creation status
enq: PL – contention	Coordinates plug-in operation of transportable tablespaces
enq: PR – contention	Synchronizes process startup
enq: PS – contention	Parallel Execution Server Process reservation and synchronization
enq: PT – contention	Synchronizes access to ASM PST metadata
enq: PV – syncstart	Synchronizes slave start shutdown
enq: PV – syncshut	Synchronizes instance shutdown_slvstart
enq: PW – perwarm status in dbw0	DBWR 0 holds enqueue indicating prewarmed buffers present in cache
enq: PW – flush prewarm buffers	Direct Load needs to flush pre-warmed buffers if DBWR 0 holds enqueue
enq: RB – contention	Serializes OSM rollback recovery operations
enq: RF – synch: per-SGA Broker metadata	Ensures r/w atomicity of DG configuration metadata per unique SGA
enq: RF – synchronization: critical ai	Synchronizes critical apply instance among primary instances
enq: RF – new AI	Synchronizes selection of the new apply instance
enq: RF – synchronization: chief	Anoints 1 instance’s DMON as chief to other instances’ DMONs
enq: RF – synchronization: HC master	Anoints 1 instance’s DMON as health check master
enq: RF – synchronization: aifo master	Synchronizes apply instance failure detection and fail over operation
enq: RF – atomicity	Ensures atomicity of log transport setup
enq: RN – contention	Coordinates nab computations of online logs during recovery
enq: RO – contention	Coordinates flushing of multiple objects
enq: RO – fast object reuse	Coordinates fast object reuse
enq: RP – contention	Enqueue held when resilvering is needed or when data block is repaired from mirror
enq: RS – file delete	Lock held to prevent file from accessing during space reclamation
enq: RS – persist alert level	Lock held to make alert level persistent
enq: RS – write alert level	Lock held to write alert level
enq: RS – read alert level	Lock held to read alert level
enq: RS – prevent aging list update	Lock held to prevent aging list update
enq: RS – record reuse	Lock held to prevent file from accessing while reusing circular record
enq: RS – prevent file delete	Lock held to prevent deleting file to reclaim space
enq: RT – contention	Thread locks held by LGWR, DBW0, and RVWR to indicate mounted or open status
enq: SB – contention	Synchronizes Logical Standby metadata operations
enq: SF – contention	Lock used for recovery when setting Sender for AQ e-mail notifications
enq: SH – contention	Should seldom see this contention as this Enqueue is always acquired in no-wait mode
enq: SI – contention	Prevents multiple streams table instantiations
enq: SK – contention	Serialize shrink of a segment
enq: SQ – contention	Lock to ensure that only one process can replenish the sequence cache
enq: SR – contention	Coordinates replication / streams operations
enq: SS – contention	Ensures that sort segments created during parallel DML operations aren’t prematurely cleaned up
enq: ST – contention	Synchronizes space management activities in dictionary-managed tablespaces
enq: SU – contention	Serializes access to SaveUndo Segment
enq: SW – contention	Coordinates the ‘alter system suspend’ operation
enq: TA – contention	Serializes operations on undo segments and undo tablespaces
enq: TB – SQL Tuning Base Cache Update	Synchronizes writes to the SQL Tuning Base Existence Cache
enq: TB – SQL Tuning Base Cache Load	Synchronizes writes to the SQL Tuning Base Existence Cache
enq: TC – contention	Lock held to guarantee uniqueness of a tablespace checkpoint
enq: TC – contention2	Lock of setup of a unique tablespace checkpoint in null mode
enq: TD – KTF dump entries	KTF dumping time/scn mappings in SMON_SCN_TIME table
enq: TE – KTF broadcast	KTF broadcasting
enq: TF – contention	Serializes dropping of a temporary file
enq: TL – contention	Serializes threshold log table read and update
enq: TM – contention	Synchronizes accesses to an object
enq: TO – contention	Synchronizes DDL and DML operations on a temp object
enq: TQ – TM contention	TM access to the queue table
enq: TQ – DDL contention	TM access to the queue table
enq: TQ – INI contention	TM access to the queue table
enq: TS – contention	Serializes accesses to temp segments
enq: TT – contention	Serializes DDL operations on tablespaces
enq: TW – contention	Lock held by one instance to wait for transactions on all instances to finish
enq: TX – contention	Lock held by a transaction to allow other transactions to wait for it
enq: TX – row lock contention	Lock held on a particular row by a transaction to prevent other transactions from modifying it
enq: TX – allocate ITL entry	Allocating an ITL entry in order to begin a transaction
enq: TX – index contention	Lock held on an index during a split to prevent other operations on it
enq: UL – contention	Lock used by user applications
enq: US – contention	Lock held to perform DDL on the undo segment
enq: WA – contention	Lock used for recovery when setting Watermark for memory usage in AQ notifications
enq: WF – contention	This enqueue is used to serialize the flushing of snapshots
enq: WL – contention	Coordinates access to redo log files and archive logs
enq: WP – contention	This enqueue handles concurrency between purging and baselines
enq: XH – contention	Lock used for recovery when setting No Proxy Domains for AQ HTTP notifications
enq: XR – quiesce database	Lock held during database quiesce
enq: XR – database force logging	Lock held during database force logging mode
enq: XY – contention	Lock used for internal testing