Why do I get an open transaction when just selecting from a database View?

Question

If I execute a simple select statement in pl/sql developer against a database table, I get a standard set of results back as I would expect.

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Answer 1

Note, according to the Oracle 11g Admin Guide, if you do a plain old SELECT across a database link you will start a transaction, which needs to be committed (or rolled back).