Re: How to simulate ORA-03114 "Not connected to Oracle" in a test application?

On Fri, 9 Nov 2007 14:19:51 +0100, André Hartmann <andre.hartmann_at_hotmail.de> wrote:

>Hi there,
> I would like to simulate ORA-03114 in a test application and I would like to get some clues as to how to do this.

According to the documentation:

ORA-03114 not connected to ORACLE

    Cause: A call to Oracle was attempted when no connection was established. Usually this happens because a user-written program has not logged on. It may happen if communication trouble causes a disconnection. In addition, this message could occur when ALTER SYSTEM KILL SESSION or ALTER SYSTEM DISCONNECT SESSION were issued with the IMMEDIATE qualifier because, in those cases, the client's connection to the database is terminated without waiting for the client to issue a request.

    Action: Try again. If the message recurs and the program is user written, check the program.

B.

>
> Since people are probably going to ask why I want to do that, here is some background. An Oracle client application of ours that
>connects to Oracle via OCI, sometimes faces loss of connection, for example when a lap to goes into hibernation or the network is
>unstable. We are speaking of a Windows 2000, XP, Vista client here. Now we want to improve the error handling in our application in
>this specific case. That is no problem because ORA-03114 can be detected and appropriate measures can be taken (error message,
>automatic reconnection, ...).
>
> However for every issue that we fix in our applications we are writing a test case which will test a particular behaviour or bug
>fix. We do this in form of unit tests, so the unit test application will simply run for a short or long span of time without user
>interaction and protocol what happened, for example how many of the tests succeeded and how many failed.
>
> The loss of connection we dont know how to simulate. One way is to use OEM and manually KILL the session at the appropriate point
>of time and see what the application will do. But that requires user interaction, so its not like you can run the tests over night
>and just scan the protocol the next morning...
>
> We are using MS Dev studio 2005/2003 and the standard OCI library. Thanks very much in advance
>
>André
>:)
Received on Fri Nov 09 2007 - 15:12:57 CET