RE: Please help with ORA-01555 Snapshot too old

2003-07-22 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Ron I'm guessing that one of the loads receives the ORA-01555 and the other doesn't. Does the load commit occasionally? There are some pretty good papers on Metalink for this error. Dennis Williams DBA, 80%OCP, 100% DBA Lifetouch, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- Sent:

Re: Please help with ORA-01555 Snapshot too old

2003-07-22 Thread Daniel Fink
Ron, Are the sizes of the data manipulated by the batch load the same? Is the db_block_size the same on each database? What is the size of the rbs during processing? What is the hwmsize, shrinks, extends from v$rollstat? You may be encountering a situation where

RE: Please help with ORA-01555 Snapshot too old

2003-07-22 Thread Smith, Ron L.
They are both processing the same data, the same way. -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, July 22, 2003 10:15 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Ron I'm guessing that one of the loads receives the ORA-01555 and the other doesn't. Does the load commit occasionally? There are

RE: Please help with ORA-01555 Snapshot too old

2003-07-22 Thread Odland, Brad
Snapshot too old also occurs when there is a commit across an open cursor. Keep the commit on the outermost cursor in your PL/SQL (if you are using PL/SQL) IN other words committing on the inside of a cursor FOR loop can cause the cursor snapshot to be overwritten in rollback by activity on the

RE: Please help with ORA-01555 Snapshot too old

2003-07-22 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Ron - I think you are feeling that one system is good and the other is bad. My suggestion is to consider one system at the ragged edge of failing and the other system over the edge and in the ditch. Next week with a different set of data, they may both well fail or both succeed. With ORA-01555

RE: Please help with ORA-01555 Snapshot too old

2003-07-22 Thread Dawtrey, Lindsay L
Title: Message You can try committing less frequently in the batch load e.g. if you are committing every 1 rows then try every 3 (assuming of course that the you have space left in the RBS to allow for this) or you can try adding rollback segments. Metalink docs give some good ideas