Some basic PL/SQL quesions

Question

Hi,
I am new to Oracle world and I need some helps:
I need to run a lengthly ctx_ddl.sync_index procedure in our 10g R2 production environment, and I want to start the procedure at night and kill the session early in the morning next day.
I am having trouble in writing the PL/SQL procedure to kill the session that is running the sync index:
Here is my try:
CREATE OR REPLACE PROCEDURE KILL_SESSION
AS
MYSID INTEGER; //SID OF THE SESSION CALLING THIS PROCEDURE
KILLSID INTEGER; //SID OF THE SESSION THAT IS RUNNING THE SYNC INDEX
KILLSERIAL INTEGER; //SERIAL# OF THE SESSION THAT IS RUNNING THE SYNC INDEX
BEGIN
SELECT DISTINCT(SID) INTO MYSID FROM MY V$MYSTAT;
^ ^^^ V$MYSTAT COMPILATION ERROR - NO SUCH TABLE OR VIEW
SELECT SID INTO KILLSID, SERIAL# INTO KILLSERIAL FROM V$SESSION WHERE SID NOT IN (MYSID) AND OSUSER='SYS_ADMINISTRATOR';
^ ^^^ V$SESSION COMPILATION ERROR - NO SUCH TABLE OR VIEW
ALTER SYSTEM KILL SESSION 'KILLSID, KILLSERIAL';
^^^^^^^ CAN I USE VARIABLE NAME INSIDE A SINGLE QUOTE??????
END KILL_SESSION;
Any help is appreciated !

Answer 1

Hi,
Welcome to the forum!
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Vg is right: there's something fundamentally flawed with a job that you have to kill.
Can you sub-divide the job, and do a different part each night?
A KILL procedure is handy in any case. As Vg said, you (the procedure owner) have to have privileges granted directly to you. Roles don't count inside stored procedures, so merely having a role that lets you query the data dictionary views is not enough.
Also, you may need privileges granted on the actual V_$ views, rather than the V$ synonyms. (That is, V$MYSTAT, without an underscore, is just a public synonym for the view SYS.V_$MYSTAT, with an underscore in its name. You want to GRANT SELECT ON V_$MYSTAT to proc_owner;)