Rich, I'd see it quite unlikely you can get the same SID twice on the same instance at any time. the column "SID" in v$session is mapped to X$KSUSE.indx - I don't expect Oracle developers to call an internal column 'index' if it's not unique. not the best prove, maybe someone else can do better? Martin On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 3:44 PM, Rich Jesse <rjoralist2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hey all, > > While I'm trying to debug some messes, I see that EM12c's Top Activity > historical data shows at least one 30-minute time period from this morning > where two of the Top Sessions have the same SID. Since I know the app > generating these two sessions must do so serially -- one will finish and > disconnect before the other starts -- could this really be the case? Can > two different direct-connect (no pooling) sessions created within a "short" > period of time have the same SID? > > Evidence is on 11.2.0.3, but I know I've also seen this on 10.1.0.5 (which > is now thankfully gone!). > > TIA! > Rich > > -- > //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l