Oracle-L: Re: Finding User sessions = idle

From: Ron Rogers <RROGERS_at_galottery.org>
Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2002 06:34:53 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.0051616F.20021210063453@fatcity.com>

Denham,
To find the idle time for a user can be difficult with a script. If you query the v$session you can get the STATUS and LOGON_TIME and calculate the difference from current time, But that does not tell you when they became inactive. They might have run a query that ended 20 minutes ago or 5 minutes ago and thier status will be INACTIVE. It probabily is more efficient to use an IDLE-TIME parameter on the NET8 side of the house. Remember, the IDLE-TIMEOUT function will still use a process and the user will still think they are connected to the database. When then use the connection again they are notified that they are no longer connected and then the process is dropped. Ron

>>> EvaD_at_TFMC.co.za 12/10/02 08:18AM >>>
Hello All,

Please help - I am trying to find/create a script that will return all user
sessions whose Idle time is greater than 30 minutes. ie

    SELECT SID, SERIAL#
    FROM V$SESSION
   " WHERE IDLE_TIME > 30 min;"

My forays into the Documentation and searches have not been very successful.

I don't really want to do this via the roles IDLE_TIME setting, I very much
would like to be able to query directly to the database. Based on the information I would then make the decision to kill the user
process etc.
Just in case you might be interested it is Oracle 817 DB on Windows 2k.

Best Regards
Denham Eva
Oracle DBA
"UNIX is basically a simple operating system, but you have to be a genius to
understand the simplicity."
Dennis Ritchie.

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Re: Finding User sessions = idle > 30 min??