Status inactive in v$session

Question

on what basis, session is shown as inactive in the status column of v$session..
am connected through toad and execute so many queries, but still my session is shows as inactive ..
can anyone shed some lite on this ?
Kai

Answer 1

Mark,
DB:11.1.0.6
O/S:Win XP Proff
This is the output that I got from V$session which has got one user ,Aman connected and ran a long query which took sufficiently good amount of time to get complete.
SQL> /
STATUS   USERNAME
ACTIVE
ACTIVE
ACTIVE
ACTIVE
ACTIVE
ACTIVE
ACTIVE
ACTIVE
ACTIVE
ACTIVE
ACTIVE
STATUS   USERNAME
ACTIVE
ACTIVE
ACTIVE
ACTIVE
ACTIVE
ACTIVE
ACTIVE   SYS
ACTIVE
ACTIVE
ACTIVE
ACTIVE
STATUS   USERNAME
ACTIVE
INACTIVE AMAN
24 rows selected.
SQL> /
STATUS   USERNAME
ACTIVE
ACTIVE
ACTIVE
ACTIVE
ACTIVE
ACTIVE
ACTIVE
ACTIVE
ACTIVE
ACTIVE
ACTIVE
STATUS   USERNAME
ACTIVE
ACTIVE
ACTIVE
ACTIVE
ACTIVE
ACTIVE   SYS
ACTIVE
ACTIVE
ACTIVE
ACTIVE
ACTIVE
STATUS   USERNAME
INACTIVE AMAN
23 rows selected.
SQL> select status,username,last_call_e from v$session;
select status,username,last_call_e from v$session
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-00904: "LAST_CALL_E": invalid identifier
SQL> select status,username,last_call_et from v$session;
STATUS   USERNAME                       LAST_CALL_ET
ACTIVE                                             8
ACTIVE                                          5124
ACTIVE                                          5392
ACTIVE                                          5392
ACTIVE                                          5402
ACTIVE                                          5406
ACTIVE                                          5406
ACTIVE                                          2399
ACTIVE                                          5430
ACTIVE                                          5430
ACTIVE                                          5430
STATUS   USERNAME                       LAST_CALL_ET
ACTIVE                                          5430
ACTIVE                                          5430
ACTIVE                                          5430
ACTIVE                                          5430
ACTIVE                                          5430
ACTIVE                                          5430
ACTIVE   SYS                                       0
ACTIVE                                          5430
ACTIVE                                          5430
ACTIVE                                          5430
ACTIVE                                          5436
STATUS   USERNAME                       LAST_CALL_ET
ACTIVE                                          5436
INACTIVE AMAN                                     36
24 rows selected.
SQL>I guess,you must have noticed too.There is one session which gets added and removed on its own. I am getting 23 rows and than 24 ,the second last one becomes an active session but my session,Aman's,remains inactive only. The last_call_et column is also shown which according to docs,is showing time period of staying inactive. Interstingly, I couldn't make my user's status changed to Active. My best guess is that it might have become active when the call was submitted but after that it has become inactive again.I surely can be wrong but just wanted to share my thought.If you can explain the behaviour in more detail,it will be great.
Regards
Aman....