>Well, that's one heck of a neat trick, except it does not tell >you which >user has which link open. Is there a way to catch that??=20 Dick, The follow SQL will help. column ORIGIN format a39 column GTXID format a39 heading "GLOBAL TXN ID" column LSESSION format a10 heading "SID,SER#" column WAITING format a55 heading "WAITING FOR EVENT" column STATUS format a10 heading "STATUS" Select /*+ ORDERED */ substr(s.ksusemnm,1,23)||'-'|| substr(s.ksusepid,1,15) "ORIGIN", substr(g.K2GTITID_ORA,1,35) "GTXID", substr(s.indx,1,4)||','|| substr(s.ksuseser,1,5) "LSESSION" , substr(decode(bitand(ksuseidl,11),1,'ACTIVE',0, decode(bitand(ksuseflg,4096),0,'INACTIVE','CACHED'), 2,'SNIPED',3,'SNIPED', 'KILLED'),1,10) "STATUS", event "WAITING" from sys.x$k2gte g, sys.x$ktcxb t, sys.x$ksuse s, v$session_wait w where g.K2GTDXCB =t.ktcxbxba and g.K2GTDSES=t.ktcxbses and s.addr=g.K2GTDSES Hth, John Kanagaraj <>< DB Soft Inc Phone: 408-970-7002 (W) http://tahiti.oracle.com - Manuals for DBAs (English only) http://www.bibleserver.com - Manual for Life (in English, Deutsch, French, Italian, Spanish, Portugese, Turkish,...) ** The opinions and facts contained in this message are entirely mine and do not reflect those of my employer or customers ** -- http://www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l