The syntax to kill a session in oracle database is :
ALTER SYSTEM KILL SESSION ‘SID,SERIAL#’ IMMEDIATE;
EXAMPLE:
First get the sid and serial# of the session;
Here the session is executing the query SELECT * FROM DBACLASS;
Use the below query to get the sid and serial# of this sql query.
COL SQL_TEXT format a45 SQL> SELECT a.sid,a.serial#,substr(b.sql_text,1,200) sql_text from v$sql b, v$session a where a.sql_id=b.sql_id and upper(b.sql_text) like '%DBACLASS%' and upper(b.sql_text) not like '%V$SQL%'; 2 SID SERIAL# SQL_TEXT ---------- ---------- --------------------------------------------- 24 19329 select * from dbaclass ----Now kill session : SQL> alter system kill session '24,19329' immediate; System altered.