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From:matt.pena@enron.com
To:daren.farmer@enron.com
Subject:RE: What happened: tempdb xact log
Cc:
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Date:Wed, 28 Mar 2001 06:52:00 -0800 (PST)

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
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