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Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2001 06:52:00 -0800 (PST)
From: matt.pena@enron.com
To: daren.farmer@enron.com
Subject: RE: What happened: tempdb xact log
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This information can be obtained in our reporting environment.  Our reporting 
environment is refreshed daily.  Please use this going foward for this type 
of analysis.  With the increased activity in Unify, we're having all users 
that need to run reports in previous months perform this operation in 
reporting.

Donna Grief or Richard Pinion can show you where this environment is located.

If you have questions, please ask.

thanks

 -----Original Message-----
From:  Farmer, Daren  
Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2001 2:11 PM
To: Pena, Matt
Subject: RE: What happened: tempdb xact log

Matt, 

Each month, prior to bidweek, I pull up a monthly range in Path Manager to 
get a feel of how many of our swing customers operated in a prior month (or a 
month in a prior year).  I have never had problem with this before, and I 
have done this task every month since Unify was put into production.  When 
the problem occurred this month, I was attempting to view Apr 1-30, 2000 on 
Houston Pipe Line, with HPL as the shipper.  This information is very 
important for my bidweek preparation.  So, I need to continue perfomorming 
this operation each month.  If needed, I can wait until 5 pm top view the 
range.

D


From: Matt Pena/ENRON@enronXgate on 03/23/2001 02:30 PM
To: Daren J Farmer/HOU/ECT@ECT
cc: Chris Schomer/ENRON@enronXgate, Jaikishore Bharathi/ENRON@enronXgate, Bob 
Ward/ENRON@enronXgate, William Mallary/ENRON@enronXgate, Brian 
Ripley/ENRON@enronXgate 
Subject: RE: What happened: tempdb xact log

Darren,
Do you know if you were running pulling up the Path Manager for a date range 
around 10:51?  How do you normally pull up the Path Manager?  Please let me 
know as we're attempting to find out what caused this problem and if we 
should restrict access on the date range functionality.  If you were only 
pulling it for a day, that would be okay.
 
Thanks

-----Original Message-----
From: Mallary, William 
Sent: Friday, March 23, 2001 2:24 PM
To: Ripley, Brian
Cc: Schomer, Chris; Pena, Matt; Bharathi, Jaikishore; Ward, Bob
Subject: What happened: tempdb xact log


Brian, 
 
At 11:20am this morning, a stored procedure (source_dest_list_range_sp, Line 
#172) being run by Daren Farmer caused the tempdb transaction log on 
unifygasp to fill up.  This procedure is run routinely by many other users on 
a daily basis without incident.  At the time of the failure, this stored 
procedure had been running since 10:51am, or roughly 30 minutes.  I was 
notified via automatic page at 11:24am; the page indicating that there was 
200MB free.  I immediately checked tempdb, which was by full by this time.  
Three attempts to clear the transaction log prior to 11:30am finally resulted 
in a cleared transaction log.
 
Kishore noiced shortly thereafter that there was a problem in the way that 
Sybase was accounting for its free space, a condition which may have been 
crucial to the failure since nearly 5GB of space was apparently unavailable 
to the transaction log.  A reboot of unifyprod2 at 1:40pm cleared this 
condition.

Bill Mallary
*  william.mallary@enron.com <mailto:william.mallary@enron.com>
(  713.345.3485 (office)
(  281.960.7181 (cell)

 


