RE: alter system v shutdown abort

  • From: "Baumgartel, Paul" <paul.baumgartel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: "'ruth.gramolini@xxxxxxxxx'" <ruth.gramolini@xxxxxxxxx>, "oracle-l" <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2006 19:44:20 +0100

"RooRoo",
 
That's like using a sledgehammer to kill flies...even if alter session...kill 
returns with the "session marked for kill" (which usually means that the 
session couldn't be killed within one minute), you can follow up by killing the 
OS server process (kill -9 on *nix, orakill on Windows).  
 

Paul Baumgartel 
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-----Original Message-----
From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On 
Behalf Of Queen Roo Roo
Sent: Wednesday, September 13, 2006 2:40 PM
To: oracle-l
Subject: alter system v shutdown abort


Hello everyone,
Can someone tell me an alter system kill session 'sid,serial#'; will kill 
runaway processes or long running queries as efficiently as doing a shutdown 
abort, startup , shutdown immediate?  I have always run a job which shutdown 
kills all users who shouldn't be on after a specific time but the 
SA at my new job is skepticle because another DBA told him to use a shutdown 
abort, startup, shutdown immediate sequence.  
 
Thanks in advance,
Ruth

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Ruth Gramolini
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