Or, better still, what Igor said! J From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Igor Neyman Sent: Thursday, May 20, 2010 9:07 AM To: wellmetus@xxxxxxxxx Cc: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: get the computer name (without the domain name)? Try: select SUBSTRING(machine, INSTRING('\') + 1) from v$session where sid=41; Igor Neyman On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 11:03 AM, Roger Xu <wellmetus@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: Hi expert, How can I only get the computer name (without the domain name)? SQL> select machine from v$session where sid=41; MACHINE -------------------- Domain1\BB011499 SQL> In UNIX, I would do this but I need it to be done inside SQL # echo 'Domain1\BB011499' | awk -F\\ '{print $NF}' BB011499 Thanks, Roger Xu