topic How to cancel |dbxquery sql query? in Splunk Search

How to cancel |dbxquery sql query?

mlevsh — Mon, 07 Jun 2021 23:27:18 GMT

Hi,

We are using Splunk DB Connect on search heads to run "|dbxquery" command with SQL queries to Snowflake DB.

Sometimes user , who is running one of the queries, realizes, that a query would return a lot of data and cancels the search by clicking on "Stop" on Splunk GUI, but on Snowflake DB the query is still being executed.

Anybody knows how to Cancel the search initiated via Splunk GUI with |dbxquery command?

Re: How to cancel |dbxquery sql query?

venkatasri — Tue, 08 Jun 2021 01:01:34 GMT

Hi @mlevsh

There was no mention of documents about cancel the query on DB. Splunk DBConnect uses JDBC driver which has cancel operation however it should be supported by both DBMS & driver that you are using it inside DBConnect. Try timeout= option in dbxquery command to avoid it running for long time.

Refer- java - Stop or terminate long running query in JDBC - Stack Overflow

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