Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!bloom-beacon!eru!luth!sunic!chalmers!imtws3!orpe From: orpe@imtws3.im.se (rjan Pettersson IMT) Newsgroups: comp.databases Subject: Re: ORACLE problem using embe Message-ID: Date: 26 Oct 89 17:31:31 GMT References: <89102304305239@masnet.uucp> Sender: orpe@imtws3.im.se Organization: Industri Matematik Teknik AB Lines: 23 In-reply-to: steve.jackson@canremote.uucp's message of 22 Oct 89 04:27:00 GMT >>We recently started getting an Oracle error -3106 on a few embedded >>SELECT commands. The error manual indicates indicates "fatal >>two-task communication protocal error" and says to contact Oracle >>customer support. So far Oracle customer support has not been of >>help, and with the earthquake we do not expect to hear much from them >>soon. >Mark: >I have encountered this problem using the FAST driver, when it >encounters a divide by zero. If you are using the fast driver try >switching to the default pipe driver and see what error you get. >sjackson The original posting never made it here so my point may not be relevant. (It applies to Oracle V5.1 on NCR 32/850) Be aware that the error 3106 does not necessarily mean a two-task comm. error. We have had that error message on some 'ordinary' SELECT errors also. Finding the real error was pain... orjan -- Orjan Petersson | orpe@im.se Industrimatematik Teknik AB | orjan@cs.chalmers.se V Hamngatan 8 | Phone. nat 031-171075 S-411 17 GOTEBORG, SWEDEN | int +46-31-171075