Microsoft’s Biggest Miss

One of the benefits of a long car trip with my wife is the opportunity to have really great and insightful conversations with the smartest person I know. Yesterday, on the first leg of our trip, we spent some time discussing Microsoft’s many missed opportunities. The failure to take the iPhone seriously. The failure to take the iPad seriously. And, on. And on…

http://minimalmac.com/post/17758177061/microsofts-biggest-miss

Killing a “Killed” Session in Oracle

“Killing” a session in Oracle just means that you’ve asked the session to kill itself. That can take time depending on what the session is doing.

If you have sessions with status “KILLED” that you know aren’t doing anything important, you can kill the session immediately by executing :

ALTER SYSTEM KILL SESSION ‘sid,serial#’ IMMEDIATE;