Oracle-L: RE: killing sessions

From: Robertson Lee - lerobe <lerobe_at_acxiom.co.uk>
Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2002 01:23:21 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.004961E8.20020712012321@fatcity.com>

I had a similar problem a while ago now and the users in question could see their session from toad but didn't have permissions to kill them. This is what I did (see procedure below).

It allows a user to kill a session of theirs but not the current one. Here is the code. All the user needs to know is his sid and serial number (gets this form Toad).

I'm sure you could manipulate this code to suit your needs.

HTH Lee

create or replace procedure killsession
(v_sid IN number, v_serial IN number, v_puser IN varchar2) as

v_statement varchar2(200);
v_user varchar2(10);
v_cursor_name integer;
v_rows_processed integer;

BEGIN dbms_output.enable(10000); -- Set up output buffer

get the details to kill

select username into v_user from v$session where v_sid = sid and v_serial = serial# and v_puser = user;

format the statement to run

v_statement := 'alter system kill session '''||v_sid||','||v_serial||'''';

set up cursor and run the staement

v_cursor_name := dbms_sql.open_cursor;
dbms_sql.parse(v_cursor_name, v_statement, dbms_sql.v7);

Return value from dbms_sql.execute on DDL is undefined, don't check

v_rows_processed := dbms_sql.execute(v_cursor_name); dbms_sql.close_cursor(v_cursor_name);

exception section where details entered are incorrect

exception

                when no_data_found
                then
                        dbms_output.put_line('One or more of your parameters

is wrong. Please Check again');
when others

                then
                raise;

end of procedure

end;
/

----Original Message-----
Sent: 11 July 2002 19:51
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L

We have developers who occassionally want to be able to kill their sessions in a dev instance. We are concerned about giving them alter system priviledge and were wondering what people do about this. Is there any other way they can do this? Do some shops allow certain users to do this with some training?

Thanks.
Joe

joseph.armstrong-champ_at_tufts.edu
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