CANCEL SESSION

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The CANCEL SESSION statement lets you stop long-running sessions. CANCEL SESSION will attempt to cancel the currently active query and end the session.

Required privileges

To view and cancel a session, the user must be a member of the admin role or must have the VIEWACTIVITY and CANCELQUERY parameters set. Non-admin users cannot cancel admin users' sessions.

Synopsis

CANCEL SESSION IF EXISTS session_id SESSIONS IF EXISTS select_stmt

Parameters

Parameter Description
session_id The ID of the session you want to cancel, which can be found with SHOW SESSIONS.

CANCEL SESSION accepts a single session ID. If a subquery is used and returns multiple IDs, the CANCEL SESSION statement will fail. To cancel multiple sessions, use CANCEL SESSIONS.
select_stmt A selection query that returns session_id(s) to cancel.

Example

Cancel a single session

In this example, we use the SHOW SESSIONS statement to get the ID of a session and then pass the ID into the CANCEL SESSION statement:

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> SHOW SESSIONS;
+---------+----------------------------------+-----------+...
| node_id |            session_id            | user_name |...
+---------+----------------------------------+-----------+...
|       1 | 1530c309b1d8d5f00000000000000001 | root      |...
+---------+----------------------------------+-----------+...
|       1 | 1530fe0e46d2692e0000000000000001 | maxroach  |...
+---------+----------------------------------+-----------+...
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> CANCEL SESSION '1530fe0e46d2692e0000000000000001';

You can also cancel a session using a subquery that returns a single session ID:

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> CANCEL SESSIONS (SELECT session_id FROM [SHOW SESSIONS]
      WHERE user_name = 'root');

Cancel multiple sessions

Use the SHOW SESSIONS statement to view all active sessions:

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> SHOW SESSIONS;
+---------+----------------------------------+-----------+...
| node_id |            session_id            | user_name |...
+---------+----------------------------------+-----------+...
|       1 | 1530c309b1d8d5f00000000000000001 | root      |...
+---------+----------------------------------+-----------+...
|       1 | 1530fe0e46d2692e0000000000000001 | maxroach  |...
+---------+----------------------------------+-----------+...
|       1 | 15310cc79671fc6a0000000000000001 | maxroach  |...
+---------+----------------------------------+-----------+...

To cancel multiple sessions, nest a SELECT clause that retrieves session_id(s) inside the CANCEL SESSIONS statement:

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> CANCEL SESSIONS (SELECT session_id FROM [SHOW SESSIONS]
      WHERE user_name = 'maxroach');

All sessions created by maxroach will be cancelled.

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