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System Monitor Guide and Reference


Matching Event Records with Their Application

Each record includes the application handle and application ID. These allow you to correlate each record with the application for which the record was generated.

The application handle (agent_id) is unique system-wide for the duration of the application. However, it will eventually be reused (a 16 bit counter is used to generate this identifier). In most cases, this reuse is not a problem, since an application reading records from the trace is able to detect a connection that was terminated. For example, encountering (in the trace) a connection header with a known agent_ID implies that the previous connection with this agent_ID was terminated.

The application ID is a string identifier that includes a timestamp and is guaranteed to remain unique, even after stopping and restarting the database manager.


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