Re: ORA-00018 issues

it'll be him, almost certainly.

1) observe v$session with him connecting...
2) get him to *not* use his wonderful connection pooling.

Niall - a consultant :)

On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 6:25 PM, Maureen English <sxmte@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> We're experiencing a very strange problem...ORA-00018 errors.
>
> Yes, I know that the error means 'maximum number of sessions exceeded',
> but that is not the case.
>
> We are running Oracle 10.2.0.3.0 on Solaris 10.  We have a consultant
> who is working in this database, using a connection string like:
>
>
> jdbc:cp:uPortalPooled;driver=oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleDriver;url=jdbc:oracle:thin:@mydb.mydomain.xxx
> ;1234:MYDB
>
> where mydb.mydomain.com is the machine and MYDB is the database SID.
>
> We're trying to figure out if his attempts to connect are messing things
> up, or if there is something else going on.
>
> If we reboot the machine, the problem disappears -- we can connect via
> sqlnet.
> Then the consultant tries his connection, gets the error and we can no
> longer
> connect via sqlnet.
>
> Any suggestions for further troubleshooting?  We're looking into java
> issues,
> as well as system/database issues, but so far nothing is obvious.
>
> - Maureen
>
> --
> http://www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l
>
>
>


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Niall Litchfield
Oracle DBA
http://www.orawin.info

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