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 Dozens of daily Severity 20 and 18 Errors!

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pphillips001
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23 Posts

Posted - 2010-10-07 : 04:26:00
Hi,

We have a replicated SQL 2005 database which worked (almost) flawlessly for twelve months. Now, with no apparent change, it has started throwing these errors frequently.

Severity 20 Errors
DESCRIPTION: The client was unable to reuse a session with SPID 63, which had been reset for connection pooling. This error may have been caused by an earlier operation failing. Check the error logs for failed operations immediately before this error message.

Severity 18 Errors
DESCRIPTION: Replication-Replication Transaction-Log Reader Subsystem: agent ###-###-5 failed. The process could not execute 'sp_MSpub_adjust_identity' on '#######'.

In the logs on the receiving server (which is who generated the error message) it says that "Login failed for user 'sa'".

Has anybody come across this before? Could it be a network related issue? If so, how could we find out?

Many thanks.


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jeffw8713
Aged Yak Warrior

819 Posts

Posted - 2010-10-07 : 16:50:59
Check to see if the 'sa' login has been disabled. The login can become disabled when someone tries to login with that account and fails multiple times.

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pphillips001
Starting Member

23 Posts

Posted - 2010-10-13 : 04:48:04
Thanks jeffw8713,

We connect to both servers in question on a regular basis using the 'sa' account. We've not changed the account's permissions or anything like that. Sometimes it goes days without any errors, then get thirty in one hour. There seems to be no pattern to it.


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Kristen
Test

22859 Posts

Posted - 2010-10-13 : 07:06:04
Connection pooling erroneously reusing a pool? I remember reading of bugs that allowed this to happen in the old days - and part of the previous pool's query, or results, or somesuch got carried forwards, or reused, but the pool's new owner.

I expect that was all fixed long ago, but might be worth checking that version numbers on DB / ADO / OLE-DB . ODBC, or whatever it is called now!, drivers etc are all recent.
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