How to Terminate (Kill) Session in SAP HANA

Your SAP HANA system is experiencing some memory and CPU high consumption. Upon checking, you found that there is long running session in the SAP HANA database.

In such a case, you can follow below steps on how to terminate a long running session in the SAP HANA database.

Method 1: Using command line

ALTER SYSTEM CANCEL SESSION '[connection_id]'

Method 2: Using SAP HANA Studio

Go to Performance > Session. Right click on the long running session and select Cancel Session.

Method 3: Using SAPGUI Application

Open transaction code DBACOCKPIT, under Performance, double click on Threads. On your right panel, choose the long running culprit and select Cancel Threads.

Method 4: Using hdbcons

hdbcons 'connection c [conn_id]'

Note

SAP Note 2092196 – How-To: Terminating Sessions in SAP HANA

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