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Types of Locks

The

Write Lock

menu provides two types of locks.

The following table describes the types of locks that you can access in the

Hub Console

Type of Lock	Description
exclusive lock	Allows only one user to make changes to the underlying Operational Reference Store , preventing any other users from changing the Operational Reference Store while the exclusive lock is in effect.
write lock	Allows multiple users to making changes to the underlying metadata at the same time. Write locks can be obtained on the MDM Hub Master Database or on an Operational Reference Store .

You cannot acquire a lock an

Operational Reference Store

that is in production mode. If an

Operational Reference Store

is in production mode and you try to acquire a write lock, you will see a message stating that you cannot acquire the lock.