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Disconnecting a session

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Disconnecting a session - Amazon Relational Database Service

To disconnect the current session by ending the dedicated server process, use the Amazon RDS procedure rdsadmin.rdsadmin_util.disconnect. The disconnect procedure has the following parameters.

Parameter name Data type Default Required Description

sid

number

—

Yes

The session identifier.

serial

number

—

Yes

The serial number of the session.

method

varchar

'IMMEDIATE'

No

Valid values are 'IMMEDIATE' or 'POST_TRANSACTION'.

The following example disconnects a session.

begin
    rdsadmin.rdsadmin_util.disconnect(
        sid    => sid, 
        serial => serial_number);
end;
/

To get the session identifier and the session serial number, query the V$SESSION view. The following example gets all sessions for the user AWSUSER.

SELECT SID, SERIAL#, STATUS FROM V$SESSION WHERE USERNAME = 'AWSUSER';

The database must be open to use this method. For more information about disconnecting a session, see ALTER SYSTEM in the Oracle documentation.

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