RE: killing oracle processes

  • From: "Johnson, William L (TEIS)" <WLJohnson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: "mschmitt@xxxxxxxxxxxx" <mschmitt@xxxxxxxxxxxx>, "'oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx'" <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2009 15:36:22 -0400

Do you have a good way to make sure a developer running as Oracle account XYZ 
has permission to kill that session (logical ownership) rather than 
accidentally killing one of his or her co-workers critical processes?  Folks 
need to be patient and realize there is a reason you don't just give everyone 
DBA access...

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From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On 
Behalf Of Michael Schmitt
Sent: Monday, August 17, 2009 11:34 AM
To: 'oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx'
Subject: killing oracle processes


Hi All,

I had a quick question that I was hoping the list could help me out with.  We 
have a group of developers who are requesting the ability to kill their own 
processes in the database (PRD/DEV/TST).  For example, if a poorly written 
report gets kicked off, one of their jobs chooses a poor execution plan, or an 
OWB process gets left out there.  The only reason they can really offer is that 
they do not have to wait for the DBA team to respond.  I am trying to think of 
technical reasons why this would not work.

I can write a script to limit the process to be killed to their stuff, but 
something about this still makes me feel uneasy.  Is there anything that I 
should worry about?

Any thoughts?

Thanks

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