Creating session through SQLPlus

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According Re: Accessing Collection through a DBMS.job
there should be a way to do that.
Unfortunately I cannot manage it...
Want to create 500 simultaneous connections to public (APP_PAGE_ID=10, APP_ID=100)...any user is OK (APEX_PUBLIC_USER)...I just want to see some Oracle behavior on 500 connections (memory, i/o...etc)
exec apex_custom_auth.define_user_session('APEX_PUBLIC_USER',apex_custom_auth.get_next_session_id);
PL/SQL procedure successfully completed.
Elapsed: 00:00:01.00
exec apex_custom_auth.define_user_session('APEX_PUBLIC_USER',123456789);PL/SQL procedure successfully completed.
Elapsed: 00:00:00.00
>But no session is created...??
Could anyone clear what is wrong ...?
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Funky

Answer 1

Not exactly sure what you are trying to do, see if this helps
sqlplus htmldb_public_user@mydb
SQL*Plus: Release 9.2.0.6.0 - Production on Wed Dec 13 13:54:58 2006
Copyright (c) 1982, 2002, Oracle Corporation.  All rights reserved.
Enter password:
Connected to:
Oracle9i Enterprise Edition Release 9.2.0.6.0 - 64bit Production
With the Partitioning, OLAP and Oracle Data Mining options
JServer Release 9.2.0.6.0 - Production
SQL> select v('APP_USER') from dual;
V('APP_USER')
SQL> exec wwv_flow_custom_auth.define_user_session(p_user=>'STRESS_TEST',p_session_id=>wwv_flow_custom_auth.get_next_session_id);
PL/SQL procedure successfully completed.
SQL>  exec wwv_flow_custom_auth.remember_deep_link(p_url=>'f?p=100:0:'||v('APP_SESSION'))
PL/SQL procedure successfully completed.
SQL> select v('APP_USER') from dual;
V('APP_USER')
STRESS_TESTAt this point, this SQL*Plus session is now "emulating" an APEX application session. But all this represents is really a row in the APEX sessions table, you can create hundreds of these rows, I don't think that is going to put any stress on the Oracle database in terms of resource usage.
If you are looking to stress test your web application, there are entire frameworks out there designed to do just this.
Re: Concurrent Users Test
Stress/Load testing / screen scrapers for App Express applications
http://www.west-wind.com/presentations/webstress/webstress.htm
http://www.opensourcetesting.org/performance.php
Hope this helps.