Re: how od you stop a long running command

LPCTSTR <jobob_at_aol.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Im fairly new to Oracle and SQL plus. How do you stop a long running
> command. Lets say you accidently forgot to put the where clause on a
> select statement using a large table, how can you kill that command
> after it has started ?

You can't! This is Oracle's way of teaching you to type more carefu... oh, okay, all right, you can, I was just joking... I don't know what platform you're working on, but on Solaris, a simple control-C (a.k.a. BREAK) does it for me. I'm not sure if Windows NT recognizes control-C as break, but given that older Microsoft operating systems did, I'd hope that it would, too.

Hope that helps,

-Dan

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