How to Kill or Stop Oracle Datapump Import ( KILL IMPDP ) Job

When you start  import in Oracle database with  impdp command, you may want to kill ( impdp ) or stop these jobs. I will explain the How to Kill or Stop Oracle Datapump Import ( KILL IMPDP ) Job in this post.

 

If you don’t know export and import in Oracle database, you should read following link.

 

Oracle Data Pump – Export Import ( Expdp Impdp ) Tutorial with Examples-4

 

Kill or Stop Oracle Datapump Import ( KILL IMPDP ) Job

Let’s say You want to IMPORT full database with impdp and you used following script.

 

Don’t forget that Nohup will be run following impdp command in background of operating system.

 

[oracle@MehmetSalih ~]$ nohup impdp \"/ as sysdba\" directory=PUMP dumpfile=FULL_EXPORT.dmp logfile=FULL_IMPORT.log &
[1] 9310
[oracle@MehmetSalih ~]$ nohup: ignoring input and appending output to `nohup.out'

[oracle@MehmetSalih ~]$

Check Import ( impdp ) job

Import has started with nohup and we check import process from database.

 

 

[oracle@MehmetSalih ~]$
[oracle@MehmetSalih ~]$
[oracle@MehmetSalih ]$ sqlplus / as sysdba

SQL*Plus: Release 12.1.0.2.0 Production on Thu Mar 21 10:01:05 2019

Copyright (c) 1982, 2014, Oracle. All rights reserved.

Connected to:
Oracle Database 12c Enterprise Edition Release 12.1.0.2.0 - 64bit Production
With the Partitioning, OLAP, Advanced Analytics and Real Application Testing options

SQL> select JOB_NAME,state from dba_datapump_jobs;

JOB_NAME STATE
------------------------------ ------------------------------
SYS_IMPORT_FULL_02 EXECUTING
SYS_IMPORT_SCHEMA_02 NOT RUNNING
SYS_IMPORT_SCHEMA_01 NOT RUNNING
SYS_IMPORT_FULL_01 NOT RUNNING
SYS_IMPORT_SCHEMA_03 NOT RUNNING

SQL>
SQL> exit
Disconnected from Oracle Database 12c Release 12.1.0.2.0 - 64bit Production
[oracle@MehmetSalih ~]$

 

 

Attach impdp job

You can see that IMPORT process is run with SYS_IMPORT_FULL_02 EXECUTING name like above.

We can attach or connect to this process like following

 

[oracle@MehmetSalih ~]$
[oracle@MehmetSalih ~]$ impdp \"/ as sysdba\" attach=SYS_IMPORT_FULL_02

IMPORT: Release 12.1.0.2.0 - Production on Fri Mar 22 12:17:08 2019

Copyright (c) 1982, 2011, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.

Connected to: Oracle Database 12c Release 12.1.0.2.0 - 64bit Production

Job: SYS_IMPORT_FULL_02
Owner: SYS
Operation: IMPORT
Creator Privs: TRUE
GUID: 84AC4FBE3E0B2469E0530A20A8C0E1E2
Start Time: Friday, 22 March, 2019 12:16:37
Mode: FULL
Instance: DEVECI12C
Max Parallelism: 1
IMPORT Job Parameters:
Parameter Name Parameter Value:
CLIENT_COMMAND "/******** AS SYSDBA" directory=PUMP dumpfile=FULL_EXPORT.dmp logfile=FULL_EXPORT.log
State: EXECUTING
Bytes Processed: 0
Current Parallelism: 1
Job Error Count: 0
Dump File: /backup/IMPORT/FULL_EXPORT.dmp
bytes written: 4,096

Worker 1 Status:
Process Name: DW00
State: EXECUTING
Object Name: +*
Object Type: DATABASE_IMPORT/TRUSTED_DB_LINK
Completed Objects: 1
Total Objects: 1
Worker Parallelism: 1

IMPORT>

 

 

You can check status of IMPORT process like following. We can see the status of IMPORT job in this way especially

 

IMPORT> status

Job: SYS_IMPORT_FULL_02
Operation: IMPORT
Mode: FULL
State: EXECUTING
Bytes Processed: 0
Current Parallelism: 1
Job Error Count: 0
Dump File: /backup/IMPORT/FULL_EXPORT.dmp
bytes written: 4,096

Worker 1 Status:
Process Name: DW00
State: EXECUTING
Object Schema: SYSMAN
Object Type: DATABASE_IMPORT/SCHEMA/TYPE/GRANT/OWNER_GRANT/OBJECT_GRANT
Completed Objects: 3
Total Objects: 3
Worker Parallelism: 1

IMPORT>

 

 

KILL IMPORT ( IMPDP ) JOB

If you want to kill this IMPORT job, you can kill it with kill_job command like following.

IMPORT> kill_job
Are you sure you wish to stop this job ([yes]/no): yes

 

You can see that this IMPORT job is killed.

 

[oracle@MehmetSalih ~]$
[1]+ Done nohup impdp \"/ as sysdba\" directory=PUMP dumpfile=FULL_EXPORT.dmp logfile=FULL_EXPORT.log
[oracle@MehmetSalih ~]$

 

 

 

Do you want to learn How to Kill or Stop Oracle Datapump Export ( EXPDP ) Job, then read the following post.

How to Kill or Stop Oracle Datapump Export ( EXPDP ) Job

 

 

 

 

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