what does INACTIVE session do?

From: Gurelei <gurelei_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Thu, 06 Feb 2003 13:34:38 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.00546688.20030206133438@fatcity.com>

Hi this is a pretty trivial question. I have executed a set of sql scripts. The scripts included a set ofSELECT command followed by exit. While the scripts have been running, I was checking the number of sessions open
and their status. I have noticed that at any time I had a number of sessions with ACTIVE status and the number of sessions with INACTIVE status. I alway thought that INACTIVE session is an idle session, a user that is connected to oracle, but is not running anything. In my case, a session was supposed to be closed after the last SELECT and therefore I did not expect any INACTIVE sessions. What is the explanaion here?

thanks

Gene

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