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Database Error (urgent)

Asked by: nelliott

Hi

I've got a major problem with my company Intranet in that when several people are trying to access similar pages that use the same database I get errors saying 'cannot read database - file already in use'.  It works fine if there isn't heavy traffic.  I'm using an Access database.

Should this happen?  i thought Coldfusion would be able to handle several requests at the same time.  I may be being completely niaive here - I am a newbie.

Is there anything I that I could be doing that is fundamentally wrong?  Is there anything I can do in the Coldfusion Administrator to stop this happening?

Any help gratefully recieved.

Thanks in advance.

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Answers

 

by: jonnygo55Posted on 2003-11-06 at 11:22:00ID: 9696173

in Cold Fusion administrator go to the ODBC Data Sources...click on the relevant one...click on CF Settings to expand the options....click on limit connections...set box to three(I think thats the max for access)...not many..think about upgrading to SQL server if your company has the money or MySQL if not

 

by: jonnygo55Posted on 2003-11-06 at 11:25:19ID: 9696204

 

by: kjuliffPosted on 2003-11-06 at 11:55:31ID: 9696439

Also check that no one is using the database NOT from your intranet. Is any application other than CF using it?

Also go to Datasources in the administrator and then CF Settings and make sure this is NOT checked

 Maintain database connections - Check this
box to maintain connections to data sources across client requests.

 

by: kjuliffPosted on 2003-11-06 at 11:56:10ID: 9696442

PS - THEN reboot the machine that the database resides on.

 

by: jyokumPosted on 2003-11-06 at 12:46:42ID: 9696739

someone probably has the database open in Access and has one of the tables open in design mode. If you can't hunt them down, do as kjuliff suggested... reboot the server the database resides on.

 

by: anandkpPosted on 2003-11-06 at 20:31:22ID: 9698936

In ur CFAdmin -> Data Sources ... go to ur DSN & click on advanced settings ...
u'll see Maintain DataBase Connections - UNCHECK this !

that shld do it.

PS : kjuliff - u mentioned "Maintain database connections - Check this " - whereas it shld be unchecked - right ????

K'Rgds
Anand

 

by: substandPosted on 2003-11-06 at 22:32:21ID: 9699327

place <cftransaction> tag around your queries.

 

by: nelliottPosted on 2003-11-07 at 01:52:59ID: 9700021

Still having problems.  I realise Access is not really set up for multi user requests, but I thought Coldfusion could cope with more than 2 people using it at the same time!  Am I right in thinking that Coldfusion should stack queries and deal with them one by one?

Within Coldfusion Administrator I have the following settings:

Data Sources

CF Data Source Name: intranet
Database File: E:\Inetpub\wwwroot\assets\db\intranet.mdb (Should this be in the System Database field? - what's the difference?)

Maintain Connectiosn is NOT checked.


Server Settings

Maximum number of simultaneous requests: 5

(Nothing else checked)


Caching Settings

'Save Class Files' and 'Cache Web Server Paths' are the only things ticked.


Each query within my cfm pages is set up as so:

<cfquery name="main_news" datasource="intranet" cachedwithin="#CreateTimeSpan(0,2,0,0)#">
SELECT ID, SUBMITTED, CATEGORY, NAME, CONTENT
FROM MAIN
WHERE CATEGORY = 'Headline News'
ORDER BY ID DESC</cfquery>


Any help gratefully recieved!!!  Thanks in advance...

 

by: anandkpPosted on 2003-11-07 at 04:03:23ID: 9700521

yes change ur DSN from USer DSN to system DSN & let me know

 

by: nelliottPosted on 2003-11-07 at 05:02:35ID: 9700811

I get this error message when I tey and add the database to System DSN

Connection verification failed for data source: intranet
[]java.sql.SQLException: [Macromedia][SequeLink JDBC Driver][SequeLink Server]Unable to retrieve error message from backend ODBC Driver.
The root cause was that: java.sql.SQLException: [Macromedia][SequeLink JDBC Driver][SequeLink Server]Unable to retrieve error message from backend ODBC Driver.

Any ideas?

 

by: anandkpPosted on 2003-11-07 at 05:21:58ID: 9700905

what version of CF are u using ?

 

by: nelliottPosted on 2003-11-07 at 05:23:06ID: 9700913

6.1

 

by: anandkpPosted on 2003-11-07 at 05:31:41ID: 9700954

Enterprise / Professional ?

 

by: nelliottPosted on 2003-11-07 at 05:34:04ID: 9700965

Standard Edition Version 6.1

 

by: kjuliffPosted on 2003-11-07 at 07:33:35ID: 9701797

OK. Is the dababase on the same machine as CF? If not go to services and change the login for the CF  service to the network administrator account.

 

by: nelliottPosted on 2003-11-07 at 07:53:55ID: 9701965

The database is on the same machine as CF.

 

by: kjuliffPosted on 2003-11-07 at 09:14:02ID: 9702552

OK. Then you shouldn't have to worry about the CF login account. The problem MAY be that it wasn't initially set up as a system
DSN.

I would do this - delete ALL dsn entries (in CF AND ODBC) for this database.

Reboot.

Set up as system DNS and limit simultaneos connections to 3.

 

by: nelliottPosted on 2003-11-10 at 02:32:09ID: 9713848

I have run out of ideas, so I've changed the database to MySQL.  Looks to have solved the above problem, although it is bringing in it's own little problems (aaargghhh!)

Thanks for your all your help.

Points split between kjuliff, anandkp and jonnygo55

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