How To Stop A Running Datapump Job Started In Background [ID 958532.1]

Applies to:

Oracle Server - Enterprise Edition - Version: 10.1.0.2 and later [Release: 10.1 and later ]
Information in this document applies to any platform.

Goal

The goal of this document is to demonstrate how a running Datapump job can be stopped.

Suppose a session has started a Datapump export operation using the following UNIX command:


The example in the document demonstrates how to stop this job from further processing. The same principles apply to jobs initiated using the DBMS_DATAPUMP API.

Solution

To stop the running job the name of the job must first be retrieved. This can be done using:


Once the job name is known, that particular job can be stopped by interactively attaching to that job using the ATTACH command line option of Datapump and then stop the job. The following example demonstrates this. The sample assumes that the owner of the job is SCOTT and the job name is TEST, so in this case EXPDP must connect to the SCOTT schema and attach to the TEST job:


Once attached to the job interactively you can manipulate the job. In order to stop the job from running, the STOP_JOB command should be issued. When activated, the command asks for comfirmation. The answer "yes" should be provided to really stop the job:



The DBA_DATAPUMP_JOBS view can be queried again to see that the job is not running anymore:

SQL> select job_name,state from dba_datapump_jobs;

JOB_NAME STATE
--------------------- -------------------------
TEST NOT RUNNING[@more@]