Comments on: How to Cleanup Oracle Datapump Import Jobs? http://www.dbuggr.com/kpalati/cleanup-oracle-datapump-import-jobs/ Share Knowledge & Be Rewarded Fri, 03 Feb 2012 23:13:48 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: kpalati http://www.dbuggr.com/kpalati/cleanup-oracle-datapump-import-jobs/comment-page-1/#comment-130 kpalati Tue, 27 Oct 2009 04:31:03 +0000 http://www.dbuggr.com/kpalati/cleanup-oracle-datapump-import-jobs/#comment-130 Occasionally we might want to kill a long running Oracle import jobs ,we do it using <strong>kill -p </strong> But when this (kill -p) is done for a datapump job, it doesn't completely kill the job and locks up the underlying db objects. To resolve this, you must attach to a datapump job and use kill_job UNIX\> sqlplus '/as sysdba' SQL> select job_name, state from dba_datapump_jobs; JOB_NAME STATE ------------------------------ ------------------------------ SYS_IMPORT_SCHEMA_01 NOT RUNNING SQL> exit UNIX\> impdp \'sys/aa as sysdba\' attach=SYS_IMPORT_SCHEMA_01 IMPORT> STATUS --> This shows the status of your job IMPORT> KILL_JOB --> This will kill the datapump job and remove the underlying base tables START_JOB, STOP_JOB, EXIT_CLIENT are few other options while using datapump. impdp help=y or expdp help=y lists all of them Due to some locking conditions, if you are not able to kill the job using above method, you can also drop the datapump master table - pls make sure you are dropping the right table as this is irreversible. UNIX\> sqlplus '/as sysdba' SQL> drop table SYS_IMPORT_SCHEMA_01; SQL> exit Occasionally we might want to kill a long running Oracle import jobs ,we do it using kill -p But when this (kill -p) is done for a datapump job, it doesn’t completely kill the job and locks up the underlying db objects. To resolve this, you must attach to a datapump job and use kill_job

UNIX\> sqlplus ‘/as sysdba’

SQL> select job_name, state from dba_datapump_jobs;

JOB_NAME STATE
—————————— ——————————
SYS_IMPORT_SCHEMA_01 NOT RUNNING

SQL> exit

UNIX\> impdp \’sys/aa as sysdba\’ attach=SYS_IMPORT_SCHEMA_01

IMPORT> STATUS –> This shows the status of your job

IMPORT> KILL_JOB –> This will kill the datapump job and remove the underlying base tables

START_JOB, STOP_JOB, EXIT_CLIENT are few other options while using datapump.

impdp help=y or expdp help=y lists all of them

Due to some locking conditions, if you are not able to kill the job using above method, you can also drop the datapump master table – pls make sure you are dropping the right table as this is irreversible.

UNIX\> sqlplus ‘/as sysdba’
SQL> drop table SYS_IMPORT_SCHEMA_01;
SQL> exit

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