Jesse,
Our database is 81714 on NT4.
Our clients are a mix of 816 OCI, 817 sqlplus and forms 4.5.
The forms 4.5 clients include only the PC name in machine column and it is not chr(0) 
terminated.
        Their terminal field is set to 'Windows NT PC'
Our 816 & 817 clients have machine set to 'domain\pc_name' and it is chr(0) terminated.
        Their terminal field has just the PC name and it is not chr(0) terminated.

Maybe you can use something like 
        decode ( a.terminal , 'Windows NT PC' , a.machine , a.terminal ) Terminal

Regards,
Bruce Reardon

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Sent: Wednesday, 15 May 2002 6:23

So, there I am, creating a "special" kill user script (don't ask) for one of
our instances, 8.1.6.0.0 on Solaris.  The problem is that some of the output
rows were getting truncated on the output.  Here's the proc I had started:

        CREATE OR REPLACE PROCEDURE Euthanize AS

        v_printline             VARCHAR2(140);

        CURSOR c_sessions IS
                SELECT vs.username, vs.osuser, 
        --
        --REPLACE(vs.machine,CHR(0),NULL) "MACHINE",
                vs.machine,
        --
                , vs.logon_time, vs.last_call_et, vp.SPID 
                FROM v$session vs, v$process vp
                WHERE vs.username IS NOT NULL
                AND vs.paddr = vp.addr
                ORDER BY vs.last_call_et DESC;

        BEGIN

        FOR rsess IN c_sessions LOOP
                v_printline := rsess.username||'|'||
                        rsess.osuser||'|'||rsess.machine||'|'||
                        rsess.logontime||'|'||rsess.idletime||'|'||
                        rsess.spid||'|'||rsess.logon_time;
                dbms_output.put_line(v_printline);
        END LOOP;

        END Euthanize;

After compiling this, I called it from SQL*Plus using "execute euthanize;".

I noticed that all the DBMS_OUTPUT lines that were truncated were sessions
from Windohs workstations.  Examining a SELECT DUMP(machine) FROM V$SESSION
showed that all of the MACHINE columns from Windohs sessions were
zero-terminated.  No other client (Solaris) was.

Since the output from DBMS_OUTPUT is being prematurely truncated by this
zero-term'd field, the workaround is to either move the problem field to the
end of the output line, or to use the REPLACE function, as I've commented
out in the above code.  The latter is necessary if there is more than one
bastardized field like this or if the order of the columns in the output is
important.

Can anyone reproduce this?  The particular clients I found with the problem
are 8.1.7.

TIA!

Rich Jesse                           System/Database Administrator
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