Killing a shared servers session using: alter system kill session '&1,&2' immediate; However, the session does not kill if active. If inactive, and issue this command then the killed session gets a 3113 error on next command. However, if session is active then it does not get killed. Status in v$session remains as active. I ended up killing the session by using orakill <db> <thread id>. This kills the shared server process which is then restarted. Is this what must be done if the session is in an active status? Jeffrey Beckstrom Database Administrator Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority 1240 W. 6th Street Cleveland, Ohio 44113 ---------------------------------------------------------------- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com ---------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe send email to: oracle-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put 'unsubscribe' in the subject line. -- Archives are at //www.freelists.org/archives/oracle-l/ FAQ is at //www.freelists.org/help/fom-serve/cache/1.html -----------------------------------------------------------------