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Script to kill the top blocker and report what it was doing.

This script identifies the blocking locks at the top of the blocking chain and kills them. Specifically, it reports what the top blocking spids are doing, kills them, waits three seconds and then reports on current blocking status.  If you have a situation where single connections are causing a huge blocking chain and you want […]

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2003-05-12

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