Determine the Open Heterogeneous Services Sessions: V$HS_SESSION View

The V$HS_SESSION view shows the sessions for each agent and specifies the database link that is used. Table 4-3 shows the most relevant columns. For a description of all the columns in the view, see Oracle Database Reference.

Table 4-3 Important Columns in the V$HS_SESSION View

Column Description

HS_SESSION_ID

Unique Heterogeneous Services session identifier

AGENT_ID

Oracle Net session identifier used for connections to agent (listener.ora SID)

DB_LINK

Server database link name used to access the agent NULL means that no database link is used (for example, when using external procedures)

DB_LINK_OWNER

Owner of the database link in DB_LINK