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Re: Primary/non primary sessions

From: amogh <amogh.r_at_gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2005 19:17:17 +0530
Message-ID: <rGZQe.18$XW.156@news.oracle.com>


Mladen Gogala wrote:
> On Tue, 30 Aug 2005 16:33:48 +0530, amogh wrote:
>
>

>>Hi,
>>
>>
>>Is there a SYS table which indicates whether a session is primary or non
>>primary? I tried using the v$session table, but none of the columns seem
>>to indicate whether a session is primary or non-primary.
>>
>>I RTFM and STFW but couldnt find an answer. Any pointers would help!
>>
>>

>
> We, the people of comp.databases.oracle.server hold this truth to be self
> evident: all oracle sessions are created equal. Well, sort of, if we
> disregard the division on system and user, foreground and background, MTS
> vs. dedicated server etc. What would be the primary session? Oracle
> doesn't maintain hierarchical relationship between sessions, like Unix
> between processes. There is no primary or parent session. To my knowledge,
> there is no such thing as the primary session.
>

Self evident truths are self inflicted. A session in Oracle can have a non-migratable parent session. This is well documented and would not need explanation.

Amogh Received on Tue Aug 30 2005 - 08:47:17 CDT

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