ACTION

Identifies the position in the module (application name) and is set through the DBMS_APPLICATION_INFO package or OCI.

AUDITED_CURSORID

Returns the cursor ID of the SQL that triggered the audit. This parameter is not valid in a fine-grained auditing environment. If you specify it in such an environment, then Oracle Database always returns NULL.

AUTHENTICATED_IDENTITY

Returns the identity used in authentication. In the list that follows, the type of user is followed by the value returned:

• Kerberos-authenticated enterprise user: kerberos principal name
• Kerberos-authenticated external user : kerberos principal name; same as the schema name
• SSL-authenticated enterprise user: the DN in the user's PKI certificate
• SSL-authenticated external user: the DN in the user's PKI certificate
• Password-authenticated enterprise user: nickname; same as the login name
• Password-authenticated database user: the database username; same as the schema name
• OS-authenticated external user: the external operating system user name
• Radius-authenticated external user: the schema name
• Proxy with DN : Oracle Internet Directory DN of the client
• Proxy with certificate: certificate DN of the client
• Proxy with username: database user name if client is a local database user; nickname if client is an enterprise user.
• SYSDBA/SYSOPER using Password File: login name
• SYSDBA/SYSOPER using OS authentication: operating system user name

AUTHENTICATION_DATA

Data being used to authenticate the login user. For X.503 certificate authenticated sessions, this field returns the context of the certificate in HEX2 format.

Note: You can change the return value of the AUTHENTICATION_DATA attribute using the length parameter of the syntax. Values of up to 4000 are accepted. This is the only attribute of USERENV for which Oracle Database implements such a change.

AUTHENTICATION_METHOD

Returns the method of authentication. In the list that follows, the type of user is followed by the method returned:

• Password-authenticated enterprise user, local database user, or SYSDBA/SYSOPER using Password File; proxy with username using password: PASSWORD
• Kerberos-authenticated enterprise or external user: KERBEROS
• SSL-authenticated enterprise or external user: SSL
• Radius-authenticated external user: RADIUS
• OS-authenticated external user or SYSDBA/SYSOPER: OS
• Proxy with certificate, DN, or username without using password: NONE
• Background process (job queue slave process): JOB
• Parallel Query Slave process: PQ_SLAVE

You can use IDENTIFICATION_TYPE to distinguish between external and enterprise users when the authentication method is Password, Kerberos, or SSL.

BG_JOB_ID

Job ID of the current session if it was established by an Oracle Database background process. Null if the session was not established by a background process.

CLIENT_IDENTIFIER

Returns an identifier that is set by the application through the DBMS_SESSION.SET_IDENTIFIER procedure, the OCI attributeOCI_ATTR_CLIENT_IDENTIFIER, or Oracle Dynamic Monitoring Service (DMS). This attribute is used by various database components to identify lightweight application users who authenticate as the same database user.

CLIENT_INFO

Returns up to 64 bytes of user session information that can be stored by an application using the DBMS_APPLICATION_INFO package.

CURRENT_BIND

The bind variables for fine-grained auditing. You can specify this attribute only inside the event handler for the fine-grained auditing feature.

CURRENT_EDITION_ID

The identifier of the current edition.

CURRENT_EDITION_NAME

The name of the current edition.

CURRENT_SCHEMA

The name of the currently active default schema. This value may change during the duration of a session through use of an ALTER SESSIONSET CURRENT_SCHEMA statement. This may also change during the duration of a session to reflect the owner of any active definer's rights object. When used directly in the body of a view definition, this returns the default schema used when executing the cursor that is using the view; it does not respect views used in the cursor as being definer's rights.

Note: Oracle recommends against issuing the SQL statement ALTER SESSION SET CURRENT_SCHEMA from within all types of stored PL/SQL units except logon triggers.

CURRENT_SCHEMAID

Identifier of the currently active default schema.

CURRENT_SQL

CURRENT_SQLn

CURRENT_SQL returns the first 4K bytes of the current SQL that triggered the fine-grained auditing event. The CURRENT_SQLn attributes return subsequent 4K-byte increments, where n can be an integer from 1 to 7, inclusive. CURRENT_SQL1 returns bytes 4K to 8K; CURRENT_SQL2returns bytes 8K to 12K, and so forth. You can specify these attributes only inside the event handler for the fine-grained auditing feature.

CURRENT_SQL_LENGTH

The length of the current SQL statement that triggers fine-grained audit or row-level security (RLS) policy functions or event handlers. You can specify this attribute only inside the event handler for the fine-grained auditing feature.

CURRENT_USER

The name of the database user whose privileges are currently active. This may change during the duration of a session to reflect the owner of any active definer's rights object. When no definer's rights object is active, CURRENT_USER returns the same value as SESSION_USER. When used directly in the body of a view definition, this returns the user that is executing the cursor that is using the view; it does not respect views used in the cursor as being definer's rights.

CURRENT_USERID

The identifier of the database user whose privileges are currently active.

DATABASE_ROLE

The database role using the SYS_CONTEXT function with the USERENV namespace. The role is one of the following: PRIMARY, PHYSICALSTANDBY, LOGICAL STANDBY, SNAPSHOT STANDBY.

DB_DOMAIN

Domain of the database as specified in the DB_DOMAIN initialization parameter.

DB_NAME

Name of the database as specified in the DB_NAME initialization parameter.

DB_UNIQUE_NAME

Name of the database as specified in the DB_UNIQUE_NAME initialization parameter.

DBLINK_INFO

Returns the source of a database link session. Specifically, it returns a string of the form:

SOURCE_GLOBAL_NAME=dblink_src_global_name, DBLINK_NAME=dblink_name, SOURCE_AUDIT_SESSIONID=dblink_src_audit_sessionid

where:

• dblink_src_global_name is the unique global name of the source database
• dblink_name is the name of the database link on the source database
• dblink_src_audit_sessionid is the audit session ID of the session on the source database that initiated the connection to the remote database using dblink_name

ENTRYID

The current audit entry number. The audit entryid sequence is shared between fine-grained audit records and regular audit records. You cannot use this attribute in distributed SQL statements. The correct auditing entry identifier can be seen only through an audit handler for standard or fine-grained audit.

ENTERPRISE_IDENTITY

Returns the user's enterprise-wide identity:

• For enterprise users: the Oracle Internet Directory DN.
• For external users: the external identity (Kerberos principal name, Radius schema names, OS user name, Certificate DN).
• For local users and SYSDBA/SYSOPER logins: NULL.

The value of the attribute differs by proxy method:

• For a proxy with DN: the Oracle Internet Directory DN of the client
• For a proxy with certificate: the certificate DN of the client for external users; the Oracle Internet Directory DN for global users
• For a proxy with username: the Oracle Internet Directory DN if the client is an enterprise users; NULL if the client is a local database user.

FG_JOB_ID

Job ID of the current session if it was established by a client foreground process. Null if the session was not established by a foreground process.

GLOBAL_CONTEXT_MEMORY

Returns the number being used in the System Global Area by the globally accessed context.

GLOBAL_UID

Returns the global user ID from Oracle Internet Directory for Enterprise User Security (EUS) logins; returns null for all other logins.

HOST

Name of the host machine from which the client has connected.

IDENTIFICATION_TYPE

Returns the way the user's schema was created in the database. Specifically, it reflects the IDENTIFIED clause in the CREATE/ALTER USERsyntax. In the list that follows, the syntax used during schema creation is followed by the identification type returned:

• IDENTIFIED BY password: LOCAL
• IDENTIFIED EXTERNALLY: EXTERNAL
• IDENTIFIED GLOBALLY: GLOBAL SHARED
• IDENTIFIED GLOBALLY AS DN: GLOBAL PRIVATE

INSTANCE

The instance identification number of the current instance.

INSTANCE_NAME

The name of the instance.

IP_ADDRESS

IP address of the machine from which the client is connected. If the client and server are on the same machine and the connection uses IPv6 addressing, then ::1 is returned.

ISDBA

Returns TRUE if the user has been authenticated as having DBA privileges either through the operating system or through a password file.

LANG

The abbreviated name for the language, a shorter form than the existing 'LANGUAGE' parameter.

LANGUAGE

The language and territory currently used by your session, along with the database character set, in this form:

language_territory.characterset

MODULE

The application name (module) set through the DBMS_APPLICATION_INFO package or OCI.

NETWORK_PROTOCOL

Network protocol being used for communication, as specified in the 'PROTOCOL=protocol' portion of the connect string.

NLS_CALENDAR

The current calendar of the current session.

NLS_CURRENCY

The currency of the current session.

NLS_DATE_FORMAT

The date format for the session.

NLS_DATE_LANGUAGE

The language used for expressing dates.

NLS_SORT

BINARY or the linguistic sort basis.

NLS_TERRITORY

The territory of the current session.

OS_USER

Operating system user name of the client process that initiated the database session.

POLICY_INVOKER

The invoker of row-level security (RLS) policy functions.

PROXY_ENTERPRISE_IDENTITY

Returns the Oracle Internet Directory DN when the proxy user is an enterprise user.

PROXY_USER

Name of the database user who opened the current session on behalf of SESSION_USER.

PROXY_USERID

Identifier of the database user who opened the current session on behalf of SESSION_USER.

SERVER_HOST

The host name of the machine on which the instance is running.

SERVICE_NAME

The name of the service to which a given session is connected.

SESSION_EDITION_ID

The identifier of the session edition.

SESSION_EDITION_NAME

The name of the session edition.

SESSION_USER

The name of the database user at logon. For enterprise users, returns the schema. For other users, returns the database user name. This value remains the same throughout the duration of the session.

SESSION_USERID

The identifier of the database user at logon.

SESSIONID

The auditing session identifier. You cannot use this attribute in distributed SQL statements.

SID

The session ID.

STATEMENTID

The auditing statement identifier. STATEMENTID represents the number of SQL statements audited in a given session. You cannot use this attribute in distributed SQL statements. The correct auditing statement identifier can be seen only through an audit handler for standard or fine-grained audit.

TERMINAL

The operating system identifier for the client of the current session. In distributed SQL statements, this attribute returns the identifier for your local session. In a distributed environment, this is supported only for remote SELECT statements, not for remote INSERT, UPDATE, or DELETEoperations. (The return length of this parameter may vary by operating system.)