“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.<\/p>\n
If you have sessions with status \u201cKILLED\u201d that you know aren’t doing anything important, you can kill the session immediately by executing : <\/p>\n
ALTER SYSTEM KILL SESSION ‘sid,serial#’ IMMEDIATE;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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