Friday, 2 February 2024

Database is hung

Application team reported that one of their application was having issues and they were not ablet to connect to Oracle database. When  I checked the databases it was completely hung and it was not allowing any new connections. I was able to connect database as sysdba. But it was not allowing any queries. Even simple select * from dual got hung. Then I collected hanganalyze dump and reviewed trace file. In the trace file I found that gather stats job was blocking all other sessions. Issue resolved after killing  blocker session using spid from OS level. 


Hanganalyze

-- Source DB env 
$ . oraenv

orcl

-- Connect to DB as sysdba   
sqlplus / as sysdba
-- Take hanganalyze dump
oradebug setmypid
oradebug unlimit
oradebug hanganalyze 3
-- Wait one minute before getting the second hanganalyze
oradebug hanganalyze 3
-- Get trace file name
oradebug tracefile_name
exit


Useful Links:

How to Collect Diagnostics for Database Hanging Issues (Doc ID 452358.1)

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