Hi Narender,
 You will need to grant explicit select privilege to the user id for
accessing the underlying view sys.v_$session to be able to do this in a
PL/SQL procedure. The id may have access to the v$session via a role. And
that would not work in a PL/SQL procedure.

HTH..

Regards,
- Kirti Deshpande 
  Verizon Information Services
   http://www.superpages.com

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Narender Akula [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, May 14, 2001 7:16 PM
> To:   Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
> Subject:      strange problem
> 
> hi gurus,
> I am able to select from every hting from v$session at command line. 
> but when i write in procedure it fails .... why.
> 
> SQL> select osuser from v$session where username = 'IMAGE_INDEX' and
> rownum
> = 1;
> 
> OSUSER
> ------------------------------
> MLOBO
> this is ok...
> 
> CREATE OR REPLACE PROCEDURE n2 IS
> tmpVar varchar2(100);
> BEGIN
> select osuser into tmpvar from v$session where username = 'MLOBO'
> and rownum = 1;
> dbms_output.put_line ('name '||tmpvar);
>    EXCEPTION
>      WHEN NO_DATA_FOUND THEN
>        Null;
>      WHEN OTHERS THEN
>        Null;
> END n2;
> 
> this  is failing says sys.V_$session must be declared.
> what could be reason ?
> 
> > narender.akula
> > 
> > 
> > 
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