Thanks Arek,

Things work again, I will email to the users list if future problems occur.

Cheers,
Steffen

On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 10:29 AM, Arek Kasprzyk <[email protected]>wrote:

> Hi Steffen
> Please feel free to post such issues to our "users" mailing list for a
> quick reply. We have had some problems with the database backend recentlly.
> Yes you are right, We have migrated to Canada but this is not what was
> causing the problems. Our servers have been actually performing far better
> here until very recently but I believe Junjun has restored everything back
> to normal now so we should expect a smooth service again
>
>
> a
>
>
> On 2011-02-24, at 1:20, "Steffen Durinck" < 
> <[email protected]><[email protected]>
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hi Arek,
>
> The last couple of days several biomaRt users have been reporting the
> following issue (I seem to experience it on and of)
>
> Any query, e.g. the one below:
>
> <?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><!DOCTYPE Query><Query
>  virtualSchemaName = 'default' uniqueRows = '1' count = '0'
> datasetConfigVersion = '0.6' requestid= "biomaRt"> <Dataset name =
> 'hsapiens_gene_ensembl'><Attribute name = 'ensembl_gene_id'/><Attribute name
> = 'ensembl_transcript_id'/><Attribute name = 'refseq_dna'/><Attribute name =
> 'coding'/><Filter name = 'refseq_dna' value =
> 'NM_198576,NM_032880,NM_173574,NM_001114759,NM_031459,NM_178865,NM_145238,NM_001080850,NM_006369,NM_017768'
> /></Dataset></Query>
>
> Leads to the following error:
>
> Error in getBM(c("ensembl_gene_id", "ensembl_transcript_id", "refseq_dna",
>  :
>   Query ERROR: caught BioMart::Exception::Database: Could not connect to
> mysql database ensembl_mart_61: DBI 
> connect('database=ensembl_mart_61;host=<http://dcc-qa-db.oicr.on.ca><http://dcc-qa-db.oicr.on.ca><http://dcc-qa-db.oicr.on.ca>
> dcc-qa-db.oicr.on.ca;port=3306','bm_web',...) failed: Can't connect to
> MySQL server on ' 
> <http://dcc-qa-db.oicr.on.ca><http://dcc-qa-db.oicr.on.ca><http://dcc-qa-db.oicr.on.ca>
> dcc-qa-db.oicr.on.ca' (113) at 
> /srv/biomart_server/<http://biomart.org/biomart-perl/lib/BioMart/Configuration/DBLocation.pm><http://biomart.org/biomart-perl/lib/BioMart/Configuration/DBLocation.pm><http://biomart.org/biomart-perl/lib/BioMart/Configuration/DBLocation.pm>
> biomart.org/biomart-perl/lib/BioMart/Configuration/DBLocation.pm line 98
>
>
> Has the BioMart central portal migrated to canada?  Is it possible this
> switch is causing the problem?
>
> Cheers,
> Steffen
>
>
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