Using v$session

Hi,

I would like to track user logons to a system we have in place. Can I use v$session in a procedure in order to populate a table which will store user logon times?

If so, do I need to have DBA privileges, and are there other restrictions?

Thanks

You should look at a the LOGON trigger. ( http://technet.oracle.com/docs/produ...6d.htm#2064212 )

This trigger will fire every time somebody logs into the database. You can capture their information from there. There is also a logoff trigger where you can capture information.

Jeff suggestion is totaly valid. Hovewer if it is only users logon times you are interesting in then you should consider turning auditing on.

Just set AUDIT_TRAIL=DB in your init.ora, bounce the database and you are all set. If you don't specify anything particular to audit, the database will by default log all user logons/logoffs.

This option definitely brings less overhead then any other solution.

HTH,

I've forgot to mention in my previous post:

Do not try to find the solution to your problem in direction: "puting trigger on V$SESSIN or something similar...". You can't create trigger on any object owned by SYS, no way....