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  1. #1
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    ver 7.2.2

    Hi Friends

    I have an ancient database whih has about 7 sessions in there which aren't user sessions.
    They have sids and serial#'s as follows :

    sid serial#
    1 1
    2 1
    3 1
    4 1
    5 1
    6 1
    7 1

    when I try an kill any of these sessions I get an error explaining that they are not user sessions

    Does anyone know what type of sessions they could be ?

    Thanks

    Suresh
    Once you have eliminated all of the impossible,
    whatever remains however improbable,
    must be true.

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    Hi..

    also realised that these sessions appear in oracle 8 databases aswell. Do these sessions belong to the oracle background processes?

    Thanks

    Suresh
    Once you have eliminated all of the impossible,
    whatever remains however improbable,
    must be true.

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    These are Oracle processes, for example, PMON, SMON, DBWR, etc.

    David Knight
    OCP DBA 8i, 9i, 10g

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    hi,
    If you look at the owner of thes processes, you should see 'SYS'.
    They are oracle internal processes...

    Cheers

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    Thanks Folks
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    whatever remains however improbable,
    must be true.

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    If you don't want to include the SID's of
    background process just include in the WHERE statement:
    select sid,.....
    from v$session
    WHERE username is not null;

    Keep it cool.

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    sometimes you may have to use

    select *
    from v$session
    where type <> 'BACKGROUND'

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    check for type = 'BACKGROUND' from the v$session. this will list u all the background processes. Hope that helps.

    cheers,
    Vinit

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