5.181 DBA_AUDIT_SESSION

DBA_AUDIT_SESSION displays all audit trail records concerning CONNECT and DISCONNECT.

Note:

This view is deprecated and applies only to traditional auditing. Traditional auditing is desupported starting in Oracle Database 23ai. Though traditional auditing is desupported, any current traditional audit settings that you have will still be honored and are viewable with this view. See Oracle Database Security Guide for more information about how this desupport works.

Related View

USER_AUDIT_SESSION displays the audit trail records concerning connections and disconnections of the current user.

Column Datatype NULL Description

OS_USERNAME

VARCHAR2(255)

Operating system login username of the user whose actions were audited

USERNAME

VARCHAR2(128)

Name (not ID number) of the user whose actions were audited

USERHOST

VARCHAR2(128)

Client host machine name

TERMINAL

VARCHAR2(255)

Identifier of the user's terminal

TIMESTAMP

DATE

Date and time of the creation of the audit trail entry (date and time of user login for entries created by AUDIT SESSION) in the local database session time zone

ACTION_NAME

VARCHAR2(28)

Name of the action type corresponding to the numeric code in the ACTION column in DBA_AUDIT_TRAIL

LOGOFF_TIME

DATE

Date and time of user log off

LOGOFF_LREAD

NUMBER

Logical reads for the session

LOGOFF_PREAD

NUMBER

Physical reads for the session

LOGOFF_LWRITE

NUMBER

Logical writes for the session

LOGOFF_DLOCK

VARCHAR2(40)

Deadlocks detected during the session

SESSIONID

NUMBER

NOT NULL

Numeric ID for each Oracle session

RETURNCODE

NUMBER

NOT NULL

Oracle error code generated by the action. Some useful values:

  • 0 - Action succeeded

  • 2004 - Security violation

CLIENT_ID

VARCHAR2(128)

Client identifier in each Oracle session

SESSION_CPU

NUMBER

Amount of CPU time used by each Oracle session (in centiseconds)

EXTENDED_TIMESTAMP

TIMESTAMP(6) WITH TIME ZONE

Timestamp of the creation of the audit trail entry (timestamp of user login for entries created by AUDIT SESSION) in UTC (Coordinated Universal Time) time zone

PROXY_SESSIONID

NUMBER

Proxy session serial number, if an enterprise user has logged in through the proxy mechanism

GLOBAL_UID

VARCHAR2(32)

Global user identifier for the user, if the user has logged in as an enterprise user

INSTANCE_NUMBER

NUMBER

Instance number as specified by the INSTANCE_NUMBER initialization parameter

OS_PROCESS

VARCHAR2(16)

Operating System process identifier of the Oracle process

See Also:

"USER_AUDIT_SESSION"