Hi derby group,

I am hitting a very strange issue on derby 10.14 where an update statement 
seems to be "remembering" an old column value. I cannot recreate this on 
all systems but the SQL below shows the issue. 

At one point in the past, the integer column PATTERN_IS_OK was set to 
318901 for 4066 rows. Later it is updated to a different value. But derby 
seems to remember 318901 aswell as knowing about the new value.

See the pieces in red below where 4066 rows are updated even though the 
PATTERN_IS_OK column has a different value.

ij> select count(*),PATTERN_IS_OK,CONFIGNAME from RELATEDEVENTS.RE_GROUPS 
WHERE CONFIGNAME = 'ACCESS_CEMS' group by CONFIGNAME ,PATTERN_IS_OK;
1          |PATTERN_IS&|CONFIGNAME
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
208        |3          |ACCESS_CEMS
4066       |5555       |ACCESS_CEMS

2 rows selected
ij> update RELATEDEVENTS.RE_GROUPS SET PATTERN = null , PATTERN_IS_OK = 
4444 WHERE CONFIGNAME = 'ACCESS_CEMS' AND  PATTERN_IS_OK = 318901 ;
4066 rows inserted/updated/deleted

ij> select count(*),PATTERN_IS_OK,CONFIGNAME from RELATEDEVENTS.RE_GROUPS 
WHERE CONFIGNAME = 'ACCESS_CEMS' group by CONFIGNAME ,PATTERN_IS_OK;
1          |PATTERN_IS&|CONFIGNAME
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
208        |3          |ACCESS_CEMS
4066       |4444       |ACCESS_CEMS

2 rows selected
ij> update RELATEDEVENTS.RE_GROUPS SET PATTERN = null , PATTERN_IS_OK = 
8888 WHERE CONFIGNAME = 'ACCESS_CEMS' AND  PATTERN_IS_OK = 318901 ;
4066 rows inserted/updated/deleted

ij> select count(*),PATTERN_IS_OK,CONFIGNAME from RELATEDEVENTS.RE_GROUPS 
WHERE CONFIGNAME = 'ACCESS_CEMS' group by CONFIGNAME ,PATTERN_IS_OK;
1          |PATTERN_IS&|CONFIGNAME
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
208        |3          |ACCESS_CEMS
4066       |8888       |ACCESS_CEMS

ij> update RELATEDEVENTS.RE_GROUPS SET PATTERN = null , PATTERN_IS_OK = 
2222 WHERE CONFIGNAME = 'ACCESS_CEMS' AND  PATTERN_IS_OK = 8888 ;
4066 rows inserted/updated/deleted

ij> select count(*),PATTERN_IS_OK,CONFIGNAME from RELATEDEVENTS.RE_GROUPS 
WHERE CONFIGNAME = 'ACCESS_CEMS' group by CONFIGNAME ,PATTERN_IS_OK;
1          |PATTERN_IS&|CONFIGNAME
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
208        |3          |ACCESS_CEMS
4066       |2222       |ACCESS_CEMS

2 rows selected
ij> update RELATEDEVENTS.RE_GROUPS SET PATTERN = null , PATTERN_IS_OK = 
2222 WHERE CONFIGNAME = 'ACCESS_CEMS' AND  PATTERN_IS_OK = 1111;
0 rows inserted/updated/deleted
WARNING 02000: No row was found for FETCH, UPDATE or DELETE; or the result 
of a query is an empty table.

ij>
ij> update RELATEDEVENTS.RE_GROUPS SET PATTERN = null , PATTERN_IS_OK = 
8888 WHERE CONFIGNAME = 'ACCESS_CEMS' AND  PATTERN_IS_OK = 318901 ;
4066 rows inserted/updated/deleted

ij>
update RELATEDEVENTS.RE_GROUPS SET PATTERN = null , PATTERN_IS_OK = 8888 
WHERE CONFIGNAME = 'ACCESS_CEMS' AND  PATTERN_IS_OK = 8888;
4066 rows inserted/updated/deleted


The table was an existing table for which the column PATTERN_IS_OK column 
was added with default value of -2. This was updated to 318901 and ever 
after derby seems to remember this value. Restarting derby does not help. 
The issue persists. I cannot reproduce this on all systems or even 
consistently on this system - I have tried adding other columns like this 
one and the issue does not happen. 


 describe RELATEDEVENTS.RE_GROUPS;
COLUMN_NAME |TYPE_NAME|DEC&|NUM&|COLUM&|COLUMN_DEF|CHAR_OCTE&|IS_NULL&
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
GROUPID             |BIGINT   |0   |10  |19    |GENERATED&|NULL      |NO
GROUPNAME           |VARCHAR  |NULL|NULL|256   |NULL      |512       |NO
INSTANCES           |BIGINT   |0   |10  |19    |NULL      |NULL      |NO
CREATIONTIME        |BIGINT   |0   |10  |19    |NULL      |NULL      |NO
VALIDATIONTIME      |TIMESTAMP|9   |10  |29    |NULL      |NULL      |NO
CONFIGNAME          |VARCHAR  |NULL|NULL|256   |NULL      |512       |NO
GROUPTTL            |BIGINT   |0   |10  |19    |NULL      |NULL      |NO
PROFILE             |VARCHAR  |NULL|NULL|128   |NULL      |256       |NO
TIMESFIRED          |BIGINT   |0   |10  |19    |NULL      |NULL      |NO
TIMESFIREDMONTHLY   |BIGINT   |0   |10  |19    |NULL      |NULL      |NO
TIMESFIREDRENEW     |BIGINT   |0   |10  |19    |NULL      |NULL      |NO
LASTEVENTOCCURRENCE&|DOUBLE   |NULL|2   |52    |NULL      |NULL      |NO
LASTEVENTOCCURRENCE&|DOUBLE   |NULL|2   |52    |NULL      |NULL      |NO
LASTEVENTOCCURRENCE&|DOUBLE   |NULL|2   |52    |NULL      |NULL      |NO
LASTFIRED           |TIMESTAMP|9   |10  |29    |NULL      |NULL      |YES
UNIQUEEVENTS        |BIGINT   |0   |10  |19    |NULL      |NULL      |NO
TOTALEVENTS         |BIGINT   |0   |10  |19    |NULL      |NULL      |NO
REVIEWED            |BOOLEAN  |NULL|NULL|1     |NULL      |NULL      |NO
TYPE                |VARCHAR  |NULL|NULL|10    |NULL      |20        |NO
EVENTIDENTITIES     |VARCHAR  |NULL|NULL|1024  |NULL      |2048      |NO
ALGVERSION          |INTEGER  |0   |10  |10    |NULL      |NULL      |YES
PATTERNACTION       |VARCHAR  |NULL|NULL|500   |NULL      |1000      |YES
PATTERN             |VARCHAR  |NULL|NULL|4028  |NULL      |8056      |YES
IS_CONFLICT         |BOOLEAN  |NULL|NULL|1     |FALSE     |NULL      |YES
CONFLICT_GROUP      |VARCHAR  |NULL|NULL|1024  |''        |2048      |YES
EVENTSCOUNT         |INTEGER  |0   |10  |10    |0         |NULL      |YES
ACKNOWLEDGED_NON_ZE&|DECIMAL  |0   |10  |31    |NULL      |NULL      |YES
NODE_EXAMPLE        |VARCHAR  |NULL|NULL|4112  |NULL      |8224      |YES
SUMMARY_EXAMPLE     |VARCHAR  |NULL|NULL|2048  |NULL      |4096      |YES
ORIGINALSEVERITY_MAX|DECIMAL  |0   |10  |31    |NULL      |NULL      |YES
ALERTGROUP_EXAMPLE  |VARCHAR  |NULL|NULL|4112  |NULL      |8224      |YES
ALARMSOURCE_EXAMPLE |VARCHAR  |NULL|NULL|4112  |NULL      |8224      |YES
ALERTKEY_EXAMPLE    |VARCHAR  |NULL|NULL|4112  |NULL      |8224      |YES
PATTERN_IS_OK       |INTEGER  |0   |10  |10    |-2        |NULL      |YES
GROUP_IS_OK         |INTEGER  |0   |10  |10    |-2        |NULL      |YES


Has anyone come across something like this before ? There are no errors in 
the derby log. Is there any logging I can turn on which would shed some 
light on what is happening?

Kind Regards,
Geraldine

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Geraldine McCormack
L3 Team Lead - TBSM & Netcool/Impact
IBM Ireland

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