...and you'd want to use V$FIXED_VIEW_DEFINITION to look at the definition of GV$SESSION, as looking at V$SESSION will make you more frustrated. :-)
On 9/22/14, 10:58, Riyaj Shamsudeen wrote:
Sumit You can find the definition of fixed views in: v$fixed_view_definition Cheers Riyaj Shamsudeen Principal DBA,Ora!nternals - http://www.orainternals.com <http://www.orainternals.com/> - Specialists in Performance, RAC and EBSBlog: http://orainternals.wordpress.com/ Oracle ACE Director and OakTable member <http://www.oaktable.com/>Co-author of the books: Expert Oracle Practices <http://tinyurl.com/book-expert-oracle-practices/>, Pro Oracle SQL, <http://tinyurl.com/ahpvms8><http://tinyurl.com/ahpvms8>Expert RAC Practices 12c. <http://tinyurl.com/expert-rac-12c> Expert PL/SQL practices <http://tinyurl.com/book-expert-plsql-practices><http://tinyurl.com/book-expert-plsql-practices>On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 7:59 AM, sumit Tyagi <dba.tyagisumit@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:dba.tyagisumit@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:Hi experts , Can you please guide how to find the base table for v_$session . I checked v$session = SYNONYM v_$session is the view . I checked the DDL of v_$session view thinking that i can get the base table from here but no success :out SQL> select DBMS_METADATA.GET_DDL('VIEW','V_$SESSION','SYS') res from dba_views where view_name='V_$SESSION'; output: select columns... ........... from v$session. /Thanks and Regards/ /Sumit/