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lubosbednar's avatar
lubosbednar
Helper I
9 years ago

Many Oracle sessions

Hello,

 

One of our customer reported problem with generating tens of Oracle sessions when working in Power BI desktop with Oracle database or refreshing data using Power BI gateway. They have limit of 80 active session on Oracle instance. So when Power BI generates 40 or more sessions then it causes a lot of problems. Sometimes these sessions also stays active long time after finishing work in Power BI. 

 

Do you have experienced such a problem? I'm not Oracle admin, so I don't know whether it is problem of Power BI or Oracle. 

 

Thanks,

Lubos

5 Replies

  • v-qiuyu-msft's avatar
    v-qiuyu-msft
    Community Support

    Hi lubosbednar,

     

    I would suggest you let your Oracle DBA check the V$SESSION view to find the active sessions. Find out if they are opened from Power BI desktop or service.

     

    Based on my test, if we open a connection to Oracle from Power BI, there should be one session. If we don't interact with this connection, status displays as INACTIVE.

     

    Best Regards,
    Qiuyun Yu

  • romgut's avatar
    romgut
    Advocate III

    I have got the same issue today, 40 open sessions, is it opening a session for each query / each table?

    One option I found for me meanwhile is to disable the parallel table load. It's ok only for the ready solution with increased loading time in the night.