Usage of v$session_longops:

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SQL> desc v$session_longops;

SID NUMBER Session identifier

SERIAL# NUMBER Session serial number
OPNAME VARCHAR2(64) Brief description of the operation
TARGET VARCHAR2(64) The object on which the operation is carried out
TARGET_DESC VARCHAR2(32) Description of the target
SOFAR NUMBER The units of work done so far
TOTALWORK NUMBER The total units of work
UNITS VARCHAR2(32) The units of measurement
START_TIME DATE The starting time of operation
LAST_UPDATE_TIME DATE Time when statistics last updated
TIMESTAMP DATE Timestamp
TIME_REMAINING NUMBER Estimate (in seconds) of time remaining for the
operation to complete
ELAPSED_SECONDS NUMBER The number of elapsed seconds from the start of
operations
CONTEXT NUMBER Context
MESSAGE VARCHAR2(512) Statistics summary message
USERNAME VARCHAR2(30) User ID of the user performing the operation
SQL_ADDRESS RAW(4 | 8) Used with the value of the SQL_HASH_VALUE column to
identify the SQL statement associated with the operation
SQL_HASH_VALUE NUMBER Used with the value of the SQL_ADDRESS column to
identify the SQL statement associated with the operation
SQL_ID VARCHAR2(13) SQL identifier of the SQL statement associated with
the operation QCSID NUMBER Session identifier of the parallel coordinator

This view displays the status of various operations that run for longer than 6
seconds (in absolute time). These operations currently
include many backup and recovery functions, statistics gathering, and query
execution, and more operations are added for every Oracle release.

To monitor query execution progress, you must be using the cost-based optimizer
and you must:

Set the TIMED_STATISTICS or SQL_TRACE parameter to true

Gather statistics for your objects with the ANALYZE statement or the DBMS_STATS
package

You can add information to this view about application-specific long-running

operations by using the
DBMS_APPLICATION_INFO.SET_SESSION_LONGOPS procedure.

Select 'long', to_char (l.sid), to_char (l.serial#), to_char(l.sofar),

to_char(l.totalwork), to_char(l.start_time, 'DD-Mon-YYYY HH24:MI:SS' ),
to_char ( l.last_update_time , 'DD-Mon-YYYY HH24:MI:SS'),
to_char(l.time_remaining), to_char(l.elapsed_seconds),
l.opname,l.target,l.target_desc,l.message,s.username,s.osuser,s.lockwait from
v$session_longops l, v$session s
where l.sid = s.sid and l.serial# = s.serial#;

Select 'long', to_char (l.sid), to_char (l.serial#), to_char(l.sofar),

to_char(l.totalwork), to_char(l.start_time, 'DD-Mon-YYYY HH24:MI:SS' ),
to_char ( l.last_update_time , 'DD-Mon-YYYY HH24:MI:SS'),
s.username,s.osuser,s.lockwait from v$session_longops l, v$session s
where l.sid = s.sid and l.serial# = s.serial#;

select substr(username,1,15),target,to_char(start_time, 'DD-Mon-YYYY

HH24:MI:SS' ), SOFAR,substr(MESSAGE,1,70) from v$session_longops;

select USERNAME, to_char(start_time, 'DD-Mon-YYYY HH24:MI:SS' ),

substr(message,1,90),to_char(time_remaining) from v$session_longops;