Re: ORA-00018 issues

  • From: Toon Koppelaars <toon.koppelaars@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: sxmte@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2009 19:32:43 +0100

If your consultant is using a dedicated username to log into this instance,
you could isolate the problem by creating a profile that limits the number
of concurrent sessions, and then attach that profile to the consultant's
username.

Toon

On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 7:25 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
>
> --
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>
>
>


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