Similar to what Mark Powell, sent, here's a query I got from Mark Bobak, based one pretty much the same tables. -- who_dblink.sql -- who is querying via dblink? -- Courtesy of Tom Kyte, via Mark Bobak -- this script can be used at both ends of the database link -- to match up which session on the remote database started -- the local transaction -- the GTXID will match for those sessions -- just run the script on both databases Select /*+ ORDERED */ substr(s.ksusemnm,1,10)||'-'|| substr(s.ksusepid,1,10) "ORIGIN", substr(g.K2GTITID_ORA,1,35) "GTXID", substr(s.indx,1,4)||'.'|| substr(s.ksuseser,1,5) "LSESSION" , s2.username, substr( decode(bitand(ksuseidl,11), 1,'ACTIVE', 0, decode( bitand(ksuseflg,4096) , 0,'INACTIVE','CACHED'), 2,'SNIPED', 3,'SNIPED', 'KILLED' ),1,1 ) "S", substr(w.event,1,10) "WAITING" from x$k2gte g, x$ktcxb t, x$ksuse s, v$session_wait w, v$session s2 where g.K2GTDXCB =t.ktcxbxba and g.K2GTDSES=t.ktcxbses and s.addr=g.K2GTDSES and w.sid=s.indx and s2.sid = w.sid / Jared Still Certifiable Oracle DBA and Part Time Perl Evangelist Oracle Blog: http://jkstill.blogspot.com Home Page: http://jaredstill.com On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 2:00 PM, Roger Xu <wellmetus@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > We are getting this error and I know I need to increase open_links > parameter which requires recycling the instance. My question is - how to > find out all open dblinks so I can kill some sessions which are holding > dblinks? (V$DBLINK lists all open database links in the current session.) > Thanks, Roger