Oracle: How to find out if there is a transaction pending?

Question

I\'m looking for a way to find out if there are uncommited INSERT, UPDATE or DELETE statements in the current session. One way would be to check v$lock with the current sid,

Answer 1

The easiest and most reliable solution is to try and start a transaction and see it if succeeds. If some code already started a transaction but has not yet issued any DML, then the V$TRANSACTION view won't show anything.

In this example below, I handle the exception to raise a user-defined application error. To defer to an existing exception handler, just do a SET TRANSACTION and then immediately COMMIT to undo it.

DECLARE
    transaction_in_progress EXCEPTION;
    PRAGMA EXCEPTION_INIT(transaction_in_progress, -1453);
BEGIN
    SET TRANSACTION NAME 'CHECK_FOR_TRANSACTION_ALREADY_SET';
    COMMIT; -- end transaction
EXCEPTION
    WHEN transaction_in_progress THEN
        RAISE_APPLICATION_ERROR(-20000,'Transaction is already in progress');
END;
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