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You must specify sid and serial identifing the session to kill. You can find these values querying the V$SESSION view:
SQL> SELECT sid, serial#, username from v$session;
Killing a session is very simple:
SQL> ALTER system KILL session ‘<sid,serial>’;
PLSQL, SQL*Plus »
DBMS_OUTPUT is a package that let you able to write some output on the screen. In SQL*Plus you can enable the output with this command:
SQL> SET serverout ON
All output will be written in a buffer. The default size of the buffer is 20,000 bytes. If you want a different buffer size you must use the enable procedure:
DBMS_OUTPUT.ENABLE (
buffer_size IN INTEGER DEFAULT 20000);
The defualt buffer size is 20,000 bytes, the maximum size is 1,000,000 bytes and the minimum is 2,000. To enable an unlimited buffer size you must …



