Basically to execute a ALTER SYSTEM KILL SESSION command you have to be a) a DBA or b) you need the ALTER SYSTEM privilege. Granting the ALTER SYSTEM privilege to a Non-DBA has big risks. This user is now able to change a lot of parameters like memory parameters, NLS settings etc. In one of my projects, a small team of well known application administrators is having a read-only account in Enterprise Manager 12c to verify the performance, see the user sessions and many more of their subset of databases. And sometimes, they have to kill a hanging Oracle session. Until now they called the DBA: “Please do it for me”. Sure, we can build a small PL/SQL procedure on every database…
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