To work with a database instance, send database requests, or manage the database instance, the user must first connect to the database instance with a user name and password and open a new database session.
If the user does not belong to a user group, then the specified user name is known as the current user. If the user does belong to a user group, the current user is the name of the user group.
A database session is either ended explicitly by the user, or implicitly when a timeout value has been exceeded.
You can display information on current database sessions with the Database Manager, or you can get this information from the appropriate system tables.
Database Manager GUI, Displaying Database Sessions
In SAP
systems, you use the Database Assistant
to display database information, or the
liveCache
Assistant for liveCache instances.