4 Managing Processes

This chapter describes how to manage and monitor the processes of an Oracle Database instance and contains the following topics:

• About Dedicated and Shared Server Processes

• About Database Resident Connection Pooling

• Configuring Oracle Database for Shared Server

• Configuring Database Resident Connection Pooling

• About Oracle Database Background Processes

• Managing Processes for Parallel SQL Execution

• Managing Processes for External Procedures

• Terminating Sessions

• Process and Session Data Dictionary Views