# CANCEL SESSION

The `CANCEL SESSION` statement lets you stop long-running sessions. `CANCEL SESSION` will attempt to cancel the currently active query and end the session.

## Required privileges

Only members of the `admin` role and the user that the session belongs to can cancel a session. By default, the `root` user belongs to the `admin` role.

## Synopsis

## Parameters

Parameter | Description
--- | ---
`session_id` | The ID of the session you want to cancel, which can be found with `SHOW SESSIONS`. `CANCEL SESSION` accepts a single session ID. If a subquery is used and returns multiple IDs, the `CANCEL SESSION` statement will fail. To cancel multiple sessions, use `CANCEL SESSIONS`.
`select_stmt` | A selection query that returns `session_id`(s) to cancel.

## Example

### Cancel a single session

In this example, we use the `SHOW SESSIONS` statement to get the ID of a session and then pass the ID into the `CANCEL SESSION` statement:

    > SHOW SESSIONS;

    +---------+----------------------------------+-----------+...
    | node_id |            session_id            | user_name |...
    +---------+----------------------------------+-----------+...
    |       1 | 1530c309b1d8d5f00000000000000001 | root      |...
    +---------+----------------------------------+-----------+...
    |       1 | 1530fe0e46d2692e0000000000000001 | maxroach  |...
    +---------+----------------------------------+-----------+...

    > CANCEL SESSION '1530fe0e46d2692e0000000000000001';

You can also cancel a session using a subquery that returns a single session ID:

    > CANCEL SESSIONS (SELECT session_id FROM [SHOW SESSIONS]
          WHERE username = 'root');

### Cancel multiple sessions

Use the `SHOW SESSIONS` statement to view all active sessions:

    > SHOW SESSIONS;

    +---------+----------------------------------+-----------+...
    | node_id |            session_id            | user_name |...
    +---------+----------------------------------+-----------+...
    |       1 | 1530c309b1d8d5f00000000000000001 | root      |...
    +---------+----------------------------------+-----------+...
    |       1 | 1530fe0e46d2692e0000000000000001 | maxroach  |...
    +---------+----------------------------------+-----------+...
    |       1 | 15310cc79671fc6a0000000000000001 | maxroach  |...
    +---------+----------------------------------+-----------+...

To cancel multiple sessions, nest a `SELECT` clause that retrieves `session_id`(s) inside the `CANCEL SESSIONS` statement:

    > CANCEL SESSIONS (SELECT session_id FROM [SHOW SESSIONS]
          WHERE user_name = 'maxroach');

All sessions created by `maxroach` will be cancelled.

## See also

- `SHOW SESSIONS`
- `SET` (session variable)
- `SHOW` (session variable)
- SQL Statements