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### 4.9 Session Manager

This tool is used to manage the connections made to the database.

The session tool consists of a toolbar, a list displaying the connections currently open to the database and at the bottom a tabbed pane where you can investigate a specific connection to the database.

#### Toolbar

The toolbar contains the following commands.

Refresh
  Refresh the view from the database.
Filter
  Here you can define which sessions to display. You can choose to see only sessions of specific users, only active sessions, all sessions, all sessions except background or all sessions except system ones.
Enable timed statistics
  Enable timed statistics for the currently selected session.
Disable timed statistics
  Disable timed statistics for the currently selected session.
Disconnect session
  Disconnect the currently selected session. You will be asked if you allow the current transaction to finish before kicking the session out or not.
Refresh time
  A list where you can select the interval between automatic updates.
Select all sessions
  TODO
Deselect all sessions
  TODO
Filter
  TODO
Change connection
  Change the connection to administrate storage for.

#### Inspecting a session

When you select a session the following information is available in the tabbed pane at the bottom of the window.

Current statement
  The statement that is currently being executed (see sgastatement for information about the statement).
Long ops
  TODO
Statistics
  The session statistics available for the session. You will get more statistics if you enable timed statistics through the toolbar. There are also two charts displaying waitstates and I/O for the selected session.
Wait events
  TODO
Connection info
  Information about the connection and versions of the components used.
Pending locks
  What locks this session is currently waiting for.
Locked objects
  The objects currently locked by this session.
Accessing
  TODO
Previous statement
  The next to last statement being executed by the session (see sgastatement for information about the statement).
Open cursors
  This contains a list of all the cursors currently held open by the session. When a statement is selected in the list you can investigate it using the normal SGA statement view.