-- ------------------------------------------------------- -- Roqet kill_session -- kill_session sql script copyright 2005 roqet - http://www.roqet.org. -- kill_session can be distributed and modified under the terms of the -- GNU General Public License: http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html -- ~~~ -- 'l' -- - -- ------------------------------------------------------- -- first find the session you want to kill: PROMPT PROMPT First; find the SID + SESSION you want to Kill.. PROMPT COLUMN budget FORMAT A32 COLUMN USER_PROGRAM_OSUSER HEADING 'USER|PROGRAM|OSUSER' FORMAT A30 WORD_WRAPPED COLUMN LOGON_TIME HEADING 'LOGON|TIME' SELECT SID, SERIAL#, SUBSTR(USERNAME || '(' || PROGRAM || ')', 1,20) || OSUSER AS USER_PROGRAM_OSUSER, TO_CHAR(LOGON_TIME, 'MM/DD HH:MI') AS LOGON_TIME FROM V$SESSION WHERE USERNAME = 'PUB'; --eg: -- -- USER -- PROGRAM LOGON -- SID SERIAL# OSUSER TIME ------------ ---------- -------------------- ----------- -- 8 2927 PUB(TOAD.exe)MYDOMN\ 03/15 10:08 -- user.one -- -- 15 50770 PUB(plsqldev.exe)MYD 03/15 02:23 -- OMN\use.two -- -- -- 2 rows selected. PROMPT PROMPT Now, enter the SID and SERIAL#... PROMPT ACCEPT sid CHAR PROMPT 'Enter SID: ' ACCEPT ser CHAR PROMPT 'Enter SERIAL#: ' PROMPT -- then kill the session: ALTER SYSTEM KILL SESSION '&sid,&ser';