RE: When is it safe to kill -9 an unkillable sqlturbo?

When killing an sqlturbo process you should follow these steps: 1) Kill the front-end (application) first. 2) If the sqlturbo is still around after a minute, perform a tbmode -z on the session. 3) If the session still won't die, run an onstat -u and look at the flags for the session. As long as there isn't an X (critical write) in progress, it's safe to kill -9 the sqlturbo. 4) If there's a critical write in progress, killing the sqlturbo process will automatically bring the engine down. This is to prevent data corruption. There is no way to terminate an sqlturbo process if it's in a critical write without bringing down the engine. Troy