Universal, and works with 7.3.4 - which is still in common use - but is deprecated in favour of: select sid from v$session where audsid = sys_context('USERENV', 'SESSIONID' );
which still doesn't help if you have several SYS sessions running, as the sessionID for SYS is always zero. The v$mystat option is the newer 'universal' except there is a preferred call to dbms_support.mysid (on the platforms which have, and have installed, dbms_support (dbmssupp.sql) - and the package only does a select sid from v$mystat where rownum = 1; anyway. Regards Jonathan Lewis http://www.jlcomp.demon.co.uk The educated person is not the person who can answer the questions, but the person who can question the answers -- T. Schick Jr One-day tutorials: http://www.jlcomp.demon.co.uk/tutorial.html Three-day seminar: see http://www.jlcomp.demon.co.uk/seminar.html ____UK___November The Co-operative Oracle Users' FAQ http://www.jlcomp.demon.co.uk/faq/ind_faq.html ----- Original Message ----- To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, December 02, 2003 8:09 PM I believe select sid from v$session where audsid = USERENV( 'SESSIONID' ); is a universal way to determine one's current internal SID based on the sessionid returned by userenv. Adam -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net -- Author: Jonathan Lewis INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services -- 858-538-5051 http://www.fatcity.com San Diego, California -- Mailing list and web hosting services --------------------------------------------------------------------- To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing).