Active users and connections in v$session

Question

How can I write an SQL script or query to find the following :
1. The total number of times a user called BRIGG connects to the database in a day(24 hour period)
2. The STATUS in V$SESSION could be ACTIVE or INACTIVE. I needed to track as to how many times, the user BRIGG was ACTIVE on a given day(24 hour period)
Thanks

Answer 1

1.
You can audit user logons with the database trigger and then run sql over your own audit table (http://www.dba-oracle.com/art_builder_sec_audit.htm)
or
you can use oracle audit trail (http://download-west.oracle.com/docs/cd/B10501_01/server.920/a96521/audit.htm#1108)
to audit brigg's session using
audit session by brigg;
Check out this article - http://www.securityfocus.com/infocus/1689
2. I don't think there is straightforward way to do it. You can wite the procedure or script to
select sysdate,status,username from v$session where username ='BRIGG' ;
run it at desired interval (i.e every second) and capture the output in the table for the later analysis.
What are you trying to achive by 2? I don't see a lot of sense in monitoring ACTIVE/INACTIVE status of the session - what kind of infromation are you trying to extract from it? May be there is another way ...
Mike