Terminating orphaned process

Is there a way a user (owner of the process being done) to cancel or kill a process in oracle once their connection has been abnormally terminate? For example, during an update to a single record from an offsite location (telecommuting from home) connection to the Oracle data base was dropped. Once logon was reestablished, the record in the process of update was locked requiring DBA intervention to kill the orphaned process.

Thanks in advanced,

Carlvel Received on Mon Jun 07 1999 - 11:56:00 CDT