Re: Intermittent connection problems from web servers to DB server

Mark,

thanks for the reply. not a typo. the error is 20004

we have no user application that generates this error. I triple-checked

Mark D Powell wrote:
> On Nov 3, 11:37 am, "Yoram Ayalon" <yoram.aya..._at_structuredweb.com>
> wrote:
> > we have several web servers, some win2K, some 2003 server, all running
> > Oracle client 9.2.0.7, running against an Oracle 9.2.0.8 DB on Solaris.
> >
> > on a totally unpredictable basis, some of our web servers will refuse
> > to talk to the DB server. The first call to the DB, which is a call to
> > a stored proc, will fail with error
> >
> > Microsoft OLE DB Provider for ODBC Drivers (0x80040E14)
> > [Microsoft][ODBC driver for Oracle][Oracle]ORA-20004
> >
> > and after a reset of the IIS everything works fine. At the same time
> > other web servers are not impacted. All web servers have the same
> > version of MDAC.
> >
> > On the DB server, I see no error in the alert file, or sqlnet log file
> > on the web servers, I see no errors in sqlnet.log
> >
> > any ideas ?
>
> Unless you made a typo entering the error number the ORA-2004 should be
> a user application issued error.
>
> Do you have any database logon event triggers?
>
> $ oerr ora 21000
> 21000, 00000, "error number argument to raise_application_error of %s%s
> is out of range"
> // *Cause:
> // *Action: Use an error number in the range of -20000 to -20999,
> inclusive.
>
> HTH -- Mark D Powell --
Received on Fri Nov 03 2006 - 13:43:16 CST