RE: 7.5.0.12 install problems on Win32 - cygwin sshd conflict

2004-05-16 Thread iml-sapdb
I think we found the conflict. The two systems that fail to run the install program also have Cygwin SSHD. If we remove cygwin from the PATH, then the install goes fine. So some kind of conflict with (at least some versions of) cygwin was introduced after 7.5.0.8, as that version and earli

RE: 7.5.0.12 install problems on Win32

2004-05-15 Thread iml-sapdb
Hi Daniel, Your command did not help. We have 6 systems we have tried, all via WTS. -- 2 fail, the other 4 work. All are same service pack / patches of win2k. -- ALL Work with 7.5.0.8 but these two srevers fail with 7.5.0.11 and later. -- We completely removed MaxDB / SAPDB from regist

7.5.0.12 install problems on Win32

2004-05-13 Thread iml-sapdb
We have never had this problem before, so we assume a recent change with the SDBINST program. When you try to do a install on a Windows 2000 Server (SP4 with latest Windows Update patches)... the SDBINST does not properly launch the 'second window' and never lets you do a install. It is poss

Win32 ODBC 7.5.0.12 driver - multithreaded deadlock, -807 error

2004-05-05 Thread iml-sapdb
Environment: Win32 dotNet 1.1, Windows 2000 Server Service Pack 4 with latest patches and latest MDAC. One server running MaxDB 7.5.0.8, the other server running ASP.NET dotNet 1.1 as a ODBC client. connection pooling turned on (always check this after driver install or upgrade, it always

SQLDBC status / sample code for win32?

2004-05-04 Thread iml-sapdb
Is SQLDBC out of beta, supported interface? Is there a C / C++ example program to demonstrate how to do a simple SELECT? Prefer for win32 / Microsoft compiler. Anyone have code to share? Thank you. Stephen Gutknecht Full time traveler currently in Dallas, Texas USA -- MaxDB Disc

Re: How to build binaries for Win32 - xserver

2004-04-09 Thread iml-sapdb
Howdy all, Thanks to Daniel's great tips, wasn't too bad. We patched xserver to skip the DNS lookup. The xserver parameter processing is rather different on win32 vs unix in the source, but we did our best to copy the 'existing code style' in how we implemented the change. The code for the

Re: strange optimizer / index use ??

2004-04-06 Thread iml-sapdb
Hello Gerd, First thing to consider: Have you run UPDATE STATISTICS on both systems before doing your tests? In my experience... if MaxDB has out of date statistics, it will sometimes think the table is small and a table scan will seem easier :) Stephen Gutknecht On Tue, 6 Apr 2004 17:3

EXPLAIN output on 7.5.0.8 and ODBC connection pooling

2004-04-03 Thread iml-sapdb
Howdy all, On Wiin32 (Windows XP or Windows 2000) with latest MaxDB 7.5.0.8 driver and server... two systems (one server, one client). Using the Unicode ODBC driver. If I do these two queries from the same connection: EXPLAIN SELECT field FROM TABLE SELECT * FROM SHOW I get my explain out

How to build binaries for Win32 - xserver

2004-03-30 Thread iml-sapdb
I feel like I"m getting bogged down in explaining my desire for a -F parameter on the Windows version of xserver. So I'm going to take another approach. Offlist or onlist, can someone help me get a build environment together so I can hack on the xserver code myself? I see I can start with

Re: MaxDB 7.5.0.8 - xserver on Windows - DNS blocking all clients - SERIOUS!

2004-03-30 Thread iml-sapdb
I appreciate your confirmation of the problem. A host file has not proven enough in case of reverse-DNS lookups that MaxDB / SAPDB does. The same behavior has hit us wen reverse DNS was misconfigured or failed. Especially if you are doing a partial subnet network (/28 /29 /30, etc.) in many s

MaxDB 7.5.0.8 - xserver on Windows - DNS blocking all clients - SERIOUS!

2004-03-29 Thread iml-sapdb
We were again hit with a production outage due to DNS dependence within MaxDB. This time we spent 1 day setting up two test servers with Win2K and a third running Linux. All running latest 7.5.0.8. I reported this problem over a year ago, and no response to my two posts on the topic. http://

Re: MaxDB with .NET

2004-03-26 Thread iml-sapdb
I will chime in... First off, we have seen no difference between 7.3 / 7.4 / 7.5 versions. The driver is independent. I believe you can even use a 7.5 ODBC driver against an older xserver/kern. I'm a bit confused why so many people on the list aren't upgrading to 7.5? Older releases are no

Re: db_admin/db_start makes the machine reboot instantly

2004-03-24 Thread iml-sapdb
I'll preface this: I'm not trying to offend, trying to help :) No application program (userland) should be able to reboot the system (without explicit intention). This sounds like a hardware or operating system problem. RAM and disk controller hardware would be suspect first. OS disk drivers

Re: MaxDB 7.5.0.8 INSERT INTO SELECT fails timestamp format

2004-03-09 Thread iml-sapdb
Ok, ignore this previous post :) ALTER TABLE had been used to add a couple fields to the old set1 table and the order of fields was no longer the same. The error returned was due to datatype mismatch on the fields in the table :) Specifying the exact fields in the INSERT and SELECT corrects

MaxDB 7.5.0.8 INSERT INTO SELECT fails timestamp format

2004-03-09 Thread iml-sapdb
Using MaxDB 7.5.0.8 on Windows 2000 the following fails: INSERT INTO tempset1 SELECT * FROM set1 WHERE timestampfield > '2004-02-28 23:30:00' Where the statement: SELECT * FROM set1 WHERE timestampfield > '2004-02-28 23:30:00' Works fine in the same context. Error returned: [MySQL MaxDB

new features: snapshots, archive tables and replication

2004-03-09 Thread iml-sapdb
Can someone please point me to specifics on these features? The MaxDB press release for 7.5.00.06 mentions them: http://www.mysql.com/press/release_2003_35.html ""Other new features introduced in MaxDB 7.5.00.06 are snapshots, archive tables and MaxDB replication."" What is a "snapshot" and w

RE: MaxDB loadercli tableextract - lock tables? backup

2004-03-09 Thread iml-sapdb
On Tue, 2 Mar 2004 09:17 , 'Schildberg, Steffen' <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> sent: >Hi Stephen, > >> Please do! It would be great to have the ability to snapshot >> production data only specific tables without down time or >> having to do a full backup. Right >> now, the only method I know of would

RE: backup routines

2004-03-09 Thread iml-sapdb
On Tue, 9 Mar 2004 20:01 , 'Becker, Holger' <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> sent: >Hi, > >after some discussion the only reason we could found for this exclusive >locks was that they should guarantee that the result of a long running >update statistic command could be inserted into the system table withou

RE: loadercli 'use user' defaults to localhost

2004-03-02 Thread iml-sapdb
On Tue, 2 Mar 2004 16:43 , 'Schildberg, Steffen' <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> sent: >> It is DBEXTRACT that concerns me most and is partly >> responsible for misleading me :) DBEXTRACT creates a >> catalog script that will do things such as: >> >> USE USER a >> CREATE TABLE a1 >> USE USER B >>

RE: MaxDB loadercli tableextract - lock tables? backup

2004-03-01 Thread iml-sapdb
On Mon, 1 Mar 2004 11:15 , 'Schildberg, Steffen' <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> sent: >> I found that using tableextract PAGES of all tables I get >> 4.7GB. Is this because the indexes are left behind? 12GB vs >> 4.7GB is pretty big difference. >> >Yep, could be. It depends of course on the indexes yo

loadercli 'use user' defaults to localhost

2004-03-01 Thread iml-sapdb
Hello Steffen, Any progress on this topic? It is DBEXTRACT that concerns me most and is partly responsible for misleading me :) DBEXTRACT creates a catalog script that will do things such as: USE USER a CREATE TABLE a1 USE USER B CREATE TABLE b1 instead of: CREATE TABLE a.a1 CR

MaxDB UPDATE STATISTICS on clones / replication partners

2004-02-29 Thread iml-sapdb
Hi, As I have mentioned on the list on the past... UPDATE STATISTICS requires lots of slow disk I/O and it locks the tables. Some of our tables are large and the lock can last for long periods (30 minutes or longer for a single table). Yes, this is on professional 15,000 RPM SCSI hard dri

Re: MaxDB loadercli tableextract - lock tables? backup

2004-02-29 Thread iml-sapdb
I am feeling like loadercli is not getting attention it needs. I've posted several topics related to it and wasted a lot of time due to design problems I have reported. Is no one at SAP / MySQL actively taking this topic and responding on the list? Interesting discovery I made regarding load

Re: [BUG] Unicode ODBC Driver is broken

2004-02-27 Thread iml-sapdb
Hi Sven, We are runing all 7.5.0.8 on our systms and I've been seeing similar problems. what is also odd is that the 'rejected bad connect packet' sounds aweful similar to an error I was seeing with DBMCLI / SQLCLI - and these don't even use the ODBC? In production we have: Win2k 7.5.0.8 odb

MaxDB loadercli tableextract - lock tables?

2004-02-25 Thread iml-sapdb
Hi, We seem to have discovered that loadercli tableextract locks the table it is extracting. we can do a backup disk to disk, but tablextract disk to disk causes all the clients to halt. Is there a way to tell loadercli to not do this and act more like the backup? Thank you. Stephen Gut

Any way to control Temporary Table performance?

2004-02-23 Thread iml-sapdb
Hi, We are working with our newly aquired 8GB Sun Solaris Sparc system. We figured once the DATA_CACHE was populated that most of our SELECT statements would scream... as we are only working with 10GB of data... Solaris shows that disk writes are being performed during our SELECT statements

Solution: loadercli - Windows XP to Solaris, use user

2004-02-20 Thread iml-sapdb
Steffen, Ahh, progress! = Windows XP output START C:\>loadercli -n 192.168.0.150 Loader Server Protocol File:'c:\program files\sdb\data\wrk\loader.prt' loadercli>USE USER test test SERVERDB TST ERR -25004 A connection to the database could not be established: 1 = database no

loadercli - Windows XP to Solaris, use user

2004-02-19 Thread iml-sapdb
Ok, starting this time from bottom up 'testing MaxDB' instead of 'assuming it works'... I found the following: loadercli running on Windows XP talking to a Solaris 8 does NOT behave the same as loadercli running native on Solaris! 1. Install MaxDB 7.5.0.8 on Windows XP, Install MaxDB 7.5.0.8

RE: loadercli problems, Windows XP to Solaris 8 - MaxDB 7.5.0.8

2004-02-19 Thread iml-sapdb
Hi Steffen I started over with PAGES. This time doing only one table (TABLEEXTRACT) instead of tyring to do my entire 12GB database. The entire database takes like 8 hours :) Using only the Windows XP 7.5.0.8 loadercli: the export went fine, the import went fine using PAGES format. HOWEVE

loadercli problems, Windows XP to Solaris 8 - MaxDB 7.5.0.8

2004-02-19 Thread iml-sapdb
Ok, PAGES format failed... so I'm trying "RECORDS UCS2" mode. 1. When I try to run loadercli from Windows XP using the Solaris 64 as a destination node... I often get unxplained errors with authentication or other. Loadercli will sometimes say protocol error. However, there are times where

urgent! MaxDB 7.5.0.8 loadercli - Intel to Sparc with unicode

2004-02-16 Thread iml-sapdb
I can not get the Solaris Sparc system to import the data created with loadercli DBEXTRACT PAGES. This is with the same version of MaxDB (7.5.0.8) on both Windows XP and Solaris 8. I have tried it remote (using Windows XP loadercli with node parameter) and local (using scp to copy file to s

MaxDB data from Win2K i386 to Solaris Sparc - nothing but net

2004-02-16 Thread iml-sapdb
I believe I already know the answer to this, consider it a feature request :) I would like to see if there is a way to make loadercli or backup work so that data is streamed directly from one MaxDB server into another :) Even if the data is Endian reversed (sparc vs. i386)? In other words,

MaxDB 7.5.0.8 loadercli DBEXTRACT PAGES

2004-02-16 Thread iml-sapdb
Hello, Using these commands: DBEXTRACT CATALOG OUTSTREAM FILE 'extract-catalog' DATA OUTSTREAM FILE 'extract-data' PAGES I am creating an extract from Windows 2000 / Windows XP. Intention is to import into a Solaris 64-bit system. What concerns me is the use of the "PAGES" pa

Win2K 0x78C ERR 18876 FIBER Could not create fiber, rc = 8

2004-02-16 Thread iml-sapdb
Hi, We have a windows 2000 server, service pack 4. 2GB of RAM. MaxDB 7.5.0BUILD 005-121-054-885. The MaxDB server stopped responding, even to local dbmcli commands. I did a db_cold and db_warm and it resumed normal operation. Reviewing the kernel error log, during the error time per

Solaris 8 and MaxDB - using all available RAM for DATA_CACHE

2004-02-16 Thread iml-sapdb
Hi, Does anyone have experience to share about trying to get DATA_CACHE as high as possible on Solaris 8 (SunOS 5.8)? I have a Sun Blade 1000 with 8GB of RAM (64bit Sparc). No other application is hosted on this system, only MaxDB for a single database instance. I have no prior Solaris ex