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    How to limit number of sessions thru a dblink?

    Hi,

    I have 3 Oracle servers, the first is Windows with 9i, the two others are AIX with 8i.

    There are some users who use a VB application, wich connects to the windows server. On this server they select a view that select data from the second server thru a dblink.

    On the second server, that view selects data from the third server thru another dblink.

    Now, all these connections use the same username, and the same dblink.

    I want to limit the number of concurrent sessions on the third server, because I have a limited number of licences.

    I have created a profile on this server (the third one) with some limits (SESSIONS_PER_USER=5, IDLE_TIME=30, CONNECT_TIME=480). The user used by the dblink is assigned to this profile.

    But even with theses limits, I still have a lot of connections (almost 20) and they remain INACTIVE for hours and even days.

    It seems that the limits given by the profile don't apply to a user connected thru a dblink? Is it true?

    Thanks!

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    But even with theses limits, I still have a lot of connections (almost 20) and they remain INACTIVE for hours and even days.

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    Why do you worry about inactive sessions?

    Tamil

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    But even with theses limits, I still have a lot of connections (almost 20) and they remain INACTIVE for hours and even days.
    Not sure, but could it be this :

    http://www.dbasupport.com/forums/sho...threadid=46105

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    I care about inactive sessions because they count for the number permited by my license. I have a limit on the number of concurrent sessions for this server.

    As for the info provided in the link, it says that you need to commit a select when it's using a dblink. This discussion was about freeing roolback segments, but I think that maybe it explains why theses sessions don't get disconnected after the 30min delay, they have active transactions. Maybe if the application would do a commit after the select, it would release the transaction and the session could be disconnected after 30min of inactivity...

    I'll have to test it.

    Thanks a lot and I'll get back here to give you the results of my tests.

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