KILLING USERS SESSIONS IN ORACLE
Author JP Vijaykumar Oracle DBA
Date Apr 14th 2010

A detailed discussion on redo, undo and Oracle's read consistency are
beyond the scope of this document.

A detailed discussion on setup, troubleshooting of user connections
in MTS environment is beyond the scope of this document.

Before embarking on a killing spree of Oracle sessions, let us explore
the options, limitations, dos and don'ts.

KILLING SESSIONS IN ORACLE
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Author JP Vijaykumar
Date Jan 27th 2009
Modified Jan 29th 2009

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One of my procedure is taking long time to complete.

Many a time, developers ask for procedures to kill there own sessions in the oracle db.
Many of our developers are scattered around the globe in different time zones.
During on-call rotation, developers will be calling me, round the clock, to kill their sessions.

To resolve this issue, I came up with this package, consisting of a pipelined function
and a procedure. The pipelined function, displays the users' sessions in the db.
The procedure kills the developer's session only.