Re: MDA Tables: Why is the owner_name omitted in most of the MDA tables?
did not find elegant approach, just some workarounds, which mostly already were mentioned in initial message 1) select user_name(object_owner_id(1)) refers only to the users in current databaseso...
View ArticleRe: Connection to Sybase ASE 12.5.0.3 from Windows Server 2008
12.5.3 is rather old for now. But you can still use it in win2008. I assume you have installed ODBC components in your ASE database server on windows system. All the thing you need do is to copy the...
View ArticleBackup server fails with Illegal max-length for parameter #3 for RPC...
Hi I've just installed a new copy of ASE 15.7 (SP100) on a CentOS 6.5 server. ASE appears to work fine, but the backup server fails with "Illegal max-length for parameter #3 for RPC as_arch_device"...
View ArticleRe: use async log service in ASE 12.5.4 on AIX
Artem ALS add a new SPID in ASE, what we seen is that the cost ofexecuting the new SPID is high, it requires one engine to be dedicated. So we have seen delays in this case below. * Low logging...
View ArticleRe: Backup server fails with Illegal max-length for parameter #3 for RPC...
Hi Michael, Congratulations for figuring out the root cause on your own! The change actually came in 15.7 ESD 4 from this feature change:Remote Backup Server Maximum Name Length -bret
View ArticleRe: Backup server fails with Illegal max-length for parameter #3 for RPC...
I may not do much DBA work anymore, but I can still do basic issue analysis :-) (and a site in Chinese where someone had the same issue, combined with Google Translate, helped ;-) Michael
View ArticleRe: Connection to Sybase ASE 12.5.0.3 from Windows Server 2008
Hi Carl, If your MSSQL 2008 is 64 bit you need to use our 64 bit drivers. If your MSSQL 2008 is 32 bit you can use the 32 bit drivers.Sybase didn't offer 64 bit drivers until the later version 15.0.So...
View ArticleConnecting to ASE instance fails due to "kernel Warning: The internal timer...
Hi experts, When I tried to connect to an Sybase ASE instance "ASE1570_S1", I got following error: [sybase@rhel64-ase-tgt ~]$ isql -Usa -Psybase -SASE1570_S1CT-LIBRARY error: ct_connect(): user...
View ArticleRe: Connecting to ASE instance fails due to "kernel Warning: The internal...
In general, the warning indicates that the server's engines are being kept too busy to process the deferred queue. The issue can resolve itself if an engine finds cycles to work on the deferred...
View ArticleRe: Connecting to ASE instance fails due to "kernel Warning: The internal...
Hi Bret, thanks for you reply. I searched the whole error log and cannot find any error in it. I've attached the error log for your reference.
View ArticleRe: Connecting to ASE instance fails due to "kernel Warning: The internal...
Hi Jerry, I concur, no signs of other errors in the errorlog. So the most likely explanation is that something is keeping the engines too busy to get the connection handler scheduled before your...
View ArticleRe: Connecting to ASE instance fails due to "kernel Warning: The internal...
Hi Bret, No, I'm not doing any replication. I can see the dataserver process is using more than 95 %CPU all the time in the output of "top" command on my VM. BTW, I cannot open the link you provided,...
View Articleestimate update statements duration
Good afternoon and happy new year to all of you, I'm working for a software company, more precisely in a team in charge of upgrading clients from version A to version B. This upgrade implies DDL...
View ArticleRe: estimate update statements duration
Sorry, but there's no easy/magic way of estimating the duration of a DML statement other than running some tests in your particular environment. There are just too many variables that are going to be...
View ArticleRe: estimate update statements duration
Hi Simon, 1. As Mark mentioned , there is no way to get estimate for time (at least I don't know any), but you can get cost/lio/pio estimate, what may bring some idea to you about time ETA. But you...
View ArticleRe: estimate update statements duration
but if there no so many joins and the update takes long time just because of table scan, if you will simply measure how many pages are read from disk in unit of time and then based on the table size...
View ArticleRe: estimate update statements duration
Hi Simon, I very much agree with Mark and Oleksii the estimation of time can never be veryaccurate because think if another user take a logical lock on a page or row which this statement want to...
View ArticleRe: Connecting to ASE instance fails due to "kernel Warning: The internal...
Hi,About this message error,[sybase@rhel64-ase-tgt ~]$ isql -Usa -Psybase -SASE1570_S1CT-LIBRARY error: ct_connect(): user api layer: internal Client Library error: Read from the server has...
View ArticleRe: estimate update statements duration
Thanks all for your feedback, Indeed I didn't expect to have a magical solution, still all your suggestions are very valuable and I'll try to keep all of them in mind while I'm challenged on providing...
View ArticleRe: Connecting to ASE instance fails due to "kernel Warning: The internal...
Hi Claude,Thanks for your reply. I can confirm that $SYBASE_ASE and $SYBASE_OCS are set correctly: [sybase@rhel64-ase15 ~]$ echo $SYBASE_ASEASE-15_0[sybase@rhel64-ase15 ~]$ echo $SYBASE_OCSOCS-15_0...
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