Extracting info from v$sqlarea

Question

Hi,
I use Oracle 9i and I am trying to extract what a session is exactly doing in a certain moment.
So, on sqlplus I execute
select a.sid,a.username,b.sql_text
from v$session a inner join v$sqlarea b
on a.sql_address=b.address and
a.sql_hash_value=b.hash_value
where sid=&sid;
but sql_text column is just 1000 characters size and I want the whole statement.
Is there any way to extract this information using sqlplus? I know that Enterprise Manager shows me this information, but to get sql text at the right moment, I would like to use a script.
Thanks in advance
Alex

Answer 1

Hi Arup,
I am writing a linux shell script that will automatically logmine information from the archivelogs in the database,
I want to try to build a shell script that will make information from the archivelogs aceesible to users i.e automating logminer with either shell scripting or set of
pl/sql procedures so that a user can use his reporting tool to specify the start date , end date and all other parameters to spool the information.
You could also help with any ideas you have.
Best Regards