RE: Sqlnet / database links / advanced queueing - most unusual problem
- From: "Fedock, John \(KAM.RHQ\)" <John.Fedock@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "Ghassan Salem" <salem.ghassan@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2007 09:22:19 -0400
I think I may have found the problem. There are 2 different Oracle Unix users,
one for each database. I suspect the unix user that is associated with the 8i
database started the 10g database and inherited it's env variables. Some more
testing this weekend will show me for sure.
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From: Ghassan Salem [mailto:salem.ghassan@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Friday, April 13, 2007 3:20 AM
To: Fedock, John (KAM.RHQ)
Cc: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Sqlnet / database links / advanced queueing - most unusual problem
John,
what are the PATH, ORACLE_HOME for the oracle user? The propagation jobs could
be inheriting a TNS_ADMIN that is pointing in the wrong place.
rjamya,
the propagation schedule and destinations are kept in the db, but not the
actual 'path' from tnsnames, so tnsnames.ora is still used upon propagation.
rgds
On 4/12/07, Fedock, John (KAM.RHQ) <John.Fedock@xxxxxxxxxxxx > wrote:
I have an interesting problem. I was able to fix but unsure of why it worked.
I am looking to see if anyone can explain, as I cannot after 2 days. I tried
to make the below as precise and as simple as I could.
On a Unix HP server, I have one 8i database and one 10.1.x database running.
They each have the own separate ORACLE_HOMEs. They each have their own
tnsnames.ora file. The variable TNS_ADMIN is pointing to the respective
correct place.
In the 10.1.x database, I have a link going to another 10.1.x database on
another server. Logging in to sqlplus, I can use the link successfully (by
querying global_name). I can tnsping okay. Snapshots using the same link are
okay. Essentially the 10.1.x database is using it's tnsnames.ora as expected.
The problem occurs when using Oracle's Advanced Queueing. AQ'ing is using the
8i tnsnames.ora file. I know this, as we started to get ora-12541 errors when
the AQ processes were running. After 2 days I could not figure out why, so on
a lark I changed the 8i tnsnames.ora file, where it was incorrect, and then
AQ'ing started to work. And yes, AQing is using the same link as I was.
So what I am seeing is AQ'ing is using the 8i tnsnames.ora to resolve the link
and non AQ processing (snapshots, sqlplus, etc) is using the 10g tnsnames.ora
to resolve the link.
Any ideas? I am out of ideas.
Thanks all.
John Fedock
"K" Line America, ISD Department
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