The main aim of this survey paper is to give basic information about properties and applications of σ‐porous sets in Banach spaces (and some other infinite‐dimensional spaces). This paper can be considered a partial continuation of the author′s 1987 survey on porosity and σ‐porosity and therefore only some results, remarks, and references (important for infinite‐dimensional spaces) are repeated. However, this paper can be used without any knowledge of the previous survey. Some new results concerning σ‐porosity in finite‐dimensional spaces are also briefly mentioned. However, results concerning porosity (but not σ‐porosity) are mentioned only exceptionally.