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How to get current session id, process id, client process id?

Posted by Amin Jaffer on May 15, 2011

SQL> select b.sid, b.serial#, a.spid processid, b.process clientpid from v$process a, v$session b
where a.addr = b.paddr
and b.audsid = userenv(‘sessionid’);

SID SERIAL# PROCESSID CLIENTPID
———- ———- ——— ———
43 52612 420734 5852:5460

V$SESSION.SID and V$SESSION.SERIAL# are database process id
V$PROCESS.SPID – Shadow process id on the database server
V$SESSION.PROCESS – Client process id, on windows it is “:” separated the first # is the process id on the client and 2nd one is the thread id.