Re: Help! Canceling an Oracle query thorugh ADO takes almost as long to run as the query itself.

On Fri, 19 Jul 2002 22:45:38 GMT, "John Boe" <nospam_at_home.com> wrote:

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>"Daniel Morgan" <dmorgan_at_exesolutions.com> wrote in message
>news:3D383A0F.CAD6B5DD_at_exesolutions.com...
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>> ALTER SYSTEM KILL SESSION
>> or, if it was available back in the paleolithic period orakill
>> or, as a last resort, if Oracle is on a UNIX box kill -9
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>> Use of ALTER SYSTEM will likely require that the DBA write a stored
>procedure
>> exposing this single functionality of ALTER SYSTEM to your program as
>likely
>> they will not let you have direct access to ALTER SYSTEM.
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>Thanks for the tip. I'll look into this.
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>> I am fascinated though ... why would anyone be developing against software
>that
>> is unsupported and is only behind the current release by 10 releases?
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>It costs millions of dollars to upgrade the database and the front-end
>applications. The Oracle database I am connecting to has 12,000 tables and
>views, in hundreds of schemas, and is used by dozens of front-end
>applications such as Oracle Financials. Next year's budget should allow our
>IT department to upgrade the database.
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You'd better get a budget for revising all of it. 12.000 tables and hundreds of schemas has inscribed 'disaster app' all over it

Regards

Sybrand Bakker, Senior Oracle DBA

To reply remove -verwijderdit from my e-mail address Received on Sat Jul 20 2002 - 03:37:08 CDT