Thanks Charlie,

Some good ideas there, I will have a look at those things and let you
know how I get on.

Regards
Barry

On Jul 19, 2:57 pm, "charlie arehart" <charlie_li...@carehart.org>
wrote:
> Right, Barry, I've not heard of it happening much on CF9. As for solving 
> this...
>
> In 8 I would have recommended making sure you had any suitable CF hotfixes. 
> In CF9,
> there has of course been at least one CHF
> (http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/825/cpsid_82536.html), but while it mentions
> NullPointerExceptions, it's only in the context of CAR file deployment.
>
> I would also suggest you confirm that any hotfix files in the [cf]\lib\updates
> directory is in fact for CF9 (they have the version number in the jar file 
> name). I've
> helped more than a few shops where they had inadvertently put uploaded to the 
> CF Admin
> (or placed there in that directory, which it does for you) jars for the wrong 
> CF
> version.
>
> In past releases I might also have recommend to check if Adobe had come out 
> with an
> updated jdbc driver, since those always had to be applied separate from 
> cumulative
> hotfixes. But there've been none for CF9 yet (there have been updates by 
> DataDirect,
> but not packaged by Adobe for us).
>
> I will point out that there is a Microsoft JDBC driver which you could try.
>
> Still, it's reasonable that the built-in one should work. Will be curious to 
> hear how
> it turns out for you.
>
> /charlie
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: cfaussie@googlegroups.com [mailto:cfaus...@googlegroups.com] On 
> > Behalf Of
> > BarryC
> > Sent: Sunday, July 18, 2010 9:56 PM
> > To: cfaussie
> > Subject: [cfaussie] Coldfusion 9, MSSQL and random
> > java.lang.nullpointerexception errors
>
> > Hello,
>
> > We have some nul null (java.lang.nullpointerexception) errors randomly
> > occuring on our servers, I've googled a bit and most of the posts
> > refer to CF 8 and MySQL, but they all seem to point to database
> > connection related things as being the issue.
>
> > You can request the same page multiple times and maybe once out of 30
> > odd requests will you see the error.
>
> > Has anyone else had these null type errors, and what databases do you
> > guys run and what connection properties or database drivers do you
> > use? What different things could I try, another database driver
> > perhaps?
>
> > Our database connection settings are:
> > Driver: MSSQLServer
> > Select Method: Direct
> > Maintain connections is on.
> > Max pooled statements: 1000
> > Timeout: 20mins , Interval 7seconds
> > Query Timeout: 0
> > Login Timeout: 30 seconds
> > CLOB enabled
> > Long text buffer (chr) 256000
> > Blob buffer (bytes) 64000
>
> > Database is MS SQL server 2008
>
> > Thanks
> > Barry Chesterman.
>
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