April 2012 Archives

Oracle SESSIONS_PER_USER

Connecting to Oracle with a proxy connection like this:

We recently updated DBI to 1.620 and DBD::Oracle to 1.44 (late last week I think). Today I saw an error that I have never seen before (but should have). "ORA-02391: exceeded simultaneous SESSIONS_PER_USER limit" You see otheruser has a profile that limits SESSIONS_PER_USER to one. We're creating between one and eleven of these database connections simultaneously in different processes.

So I tried it with the older install that was using DBI 1.616 …

Yet Another Society Website

So I did a search for Yet Another Society today and the first hit is http://www.yetanother.org. (No real surprise there.) I click the link and (surprise!) am greeted by a page that was last updated in 2003 and every link that doesn't point to static content is broken.

Who maintains http://www.yetanother.org these days? I emailed kevinm@yetanother.org (the only email address found) but it bounced.

At a minimum, it should redirect to http://www.perlfoundation.o…

About Mr. Muskrat

user-pic I'm married with 2 girls. By day, I work as a Senior Design Engineer (full time Perl programmer) for EFJohnson Technologies, a Land Mobile Radio company, in the Dallas/Fort Worth area. By night, I play various games as the mood strikes me. (Lately it's CPAN smoke testing.)