1) How much free space is there in your clients temporary area of disk (%TEMP% or %TMP%) (and can you write to it as the os user you are logged in as)? I don't see how it can be network and yet some queries work. Niall On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 2:17 PM, gidhin K. joy <gidhin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I am facing a strange issue in oracle 11g. It may not be a database issue, > can be related to network also. > > In brief, Not able to execute sql statements from my workstation (oracle > 11g client) which returns more amount of data for ex: select * from > v$session,select * from dict; I can execute simple statements like select * > from version / some user tables with less number of data by limiting with > “where” clause. > This is not an issue when I am in a remote workstation which is located in > the same network as the database server (in a remote location). Issue is > only from local workstations/applicationserver alone. > > Enviornment is , > > Server – Oracle 11.2.0.1.0 64bit on RHEL 5.4 > Client - Oracle 11.1.0.6.0 32 bit on Windows Xp. > > > > C:\Documents and Settings>sqlplus system/******@XXXX > > SQL*Plus: Release 11.1.0.6.0 - Production on Wed May 12 11:11:39 2010 > > Copyright (c) 1982, 2007, Oracle. All rights reserved. > Connected to: > Oracle Database 11g Enterprise Edition Release 11.2.0.1.0 - 64bit > Production > With the Partitioning, OLAP, Data Mining and Real Application Testing > options > > SQL> > SQL> > SQL> select * from v$session; > > It just stops there. Session won’t disconnect or any ORA-XXXX error. > > Done the following checks, > > -Initially thought of driver issue, so tried with multiple version of > oracle client,toad,oracle sql developer but issue persists. > - v$session shows that the above session in question is in status as > “INACTIVE” and state as “WAITING” > - tnsping from remote system and localsystem returns almost similar > response time (600 msec - 670 msec) > - Couldn’t find anything unusual in alert / trace also in listener log. > - Since I am able to run some queries, no need to bother about firewall > side. > - Done some basic analysis using wireshark packet analyzer - couldn’t see > any error. However could see that local system is getting “response data” > from the database server. > - MTU set to different size , 1500,1400,Default etc with no luck. > > I assume that it has something to do with network side. Your any inputs on > troubleshooting this kind of issue will be very helpful for me. > > > Thanks. > G > -- Niall Litchfield Oracle DBA http://www.orawin.info