Oracle user displaying as Inactive ---

Question

Hi All,
I have a user that submits his request on Concurrent Managers, his session within Oracle becomes Inactive and sits there for dayss! what needs to be done to resolve the issue. I am not able to view any locks within v$lock for his session id or so. HELP...
If i dont supply information or so . dont be mad at me its due i am new to the whole concept of Application DBA. KINDLY let me know what more information is required. I am as it is going going nuts over bolts!
thanks
SJK

Answer 1

An idle session can be setup to become sniped after x minutes by setting the initialization parameter resource_limit = true in the init.ora and idle_time in the user profile. You can make user session becomes sniped after 8 hours of idle time by running below command:
alter profile DEFAULT set idle_time=480; change according to your requirement
SELECT DECODE(TRUNC(SYSDATE - LOGON_TIME), 0, NULL, TRUNC(SYSDATE - LOGON_TIME) || ' Days' || ' + ') || TO_CHAR(TO_DATE(TRUNC(MOD(SYSDATE-LOGON_TIME,1) * 86400), 'SSSSS'), 'HH24:MI:SS') LOGON, SID, v$session.SERIAL#, v$process.SPID UNIX_PROCESS, v$session.USERNAME, STATUS, OSUSER, MACHINE, v$session.PROGRAM, MODULE, 'alter system kill session ' || '''' || SID || ', ' || v$session.serial# || '''' || ' immediate;' kill_sql FROM v$session, v$process
WHERE ((v$session.paddr = v$process.addr) AND (status = 'SNIPED'))
ORDER BY logon_time ASC; Edited by: Mansoor on Dec 20, 2011 2:48 AM