Since this morning we're experiencing some problems in our Google Datastudio reports, connected through the MySQL connector. We are running MySQL8 through SSL and have not had any problems before. Unfortunately this morning some diagrams showed an error:
Unable to connect to database: Communications link failure The last packet sent successfully to the server was 0 milliseconds ago. The driver has not received any packets from the server.
It appears to be random what diagrams will get the error. When I try to refresh the data for a specific diagram by, for example, changing the date, it works again. Also, manually refreshing the report results in random broken diagrams.
Connections etc are all tested with external tools and seem to work fine.
Hope anyone can help me.
some users complains similar issue for few days on community forum
There is no status page that can confirm this and there is no channel support existing for GDS
https://support.google.com/datastudio/threads?hl=en&thread_filter=(category%3Aconnect_to_data)&max_results=20
We are migrating some websites onto a cloud infrastructure running Windows 2008 virtual machines. These websites all run on ColdFusion with MySQL databases. They currently are running in our CoLo with no problems. Additionally, they are running on our development network in our offices with no problems.
We are setting up our cloud to match as closely as possible the configuration we currently use which is, essentially, CF10 + IIS on one server and MySQL on a separate machine. We are 99% finished and most things are running great. However....
We have run into a couple, as in 2, places where we click a link/button and are greeted with:
Error Executing Database Query.
Communications link failure The last packet successfully received from the server was 0 milliseconds ago. The last packet sent successfully to the server was 0 milliseconds ago.
Scanning the stack-trace I also find:
Caused by: java.net.SocketException: Connection reset
The communications link error is ALWAYS: 0ms.
What's most puzzling is the Queries that seem to be causing this are simple queries that are used ALL OVER the sites with no problems. Why they are failing at hese 2 particular places has us at wits end.
Our only clue is, looking at the CF Error description of what scripts are called, we can see the script where the query is failing is getting called twice? For example, one of the occurences is in our Application file:
>The error occurred in D:/Our_Web_Sites/oursite/Application.cfm: line 73
>Called from D:/Our_Web_Sites/oursite/Application.cfm: line 17
>Called from D:/Our_Web_Sites/oursite/Application.cfm: line 1
>Called from D:/Our_Web_Sites/oursite/Application.cfm: line 73
>Called from D:/Our_Web_Sites/oursite/Application.cfm: line 17
>Called from D:/Our_Web_Sites/oursite/Application.cfm: line 1
We can find nothing in our CF code that would be causing the script to be called twice so our guess is the first call is failing on the Query so CF tries again...only to fail and error.
Googling this issue I've found lots of posts about changing the MySQL timeouts. None of those worked and I didn't expect them to since what we're dealing with doesn't appear to be a timeout issue. These pages fail each and every time.
The closest we've come to a solution came from this blog posting:
http://www.talkingtree.com/blog/index.cfm/2011/1/12/Validation-Query-for-MySQL-communications-link-failure!
If we UNCHECK the "Maintain connections across client requests. " setting in CFAdmin then the error goes away. The blog suggests leaving that checked, which is our preference, and using Connection Validation of "SELECT 1;". Try that...same error.
We've also tried the JDBC AutoConnect=true option. No effect.
Downloaded latest JDBC Connector and used it instead of standard CF10-MySQL connector. No effect.
Again, 99% of the site works with the exception of these two links, both of which work just fine in all our other environments. Any other ideas?
I feel like I've had a similar problem every time I upgrade CF or MySQL. Usually a change in the JDBC driver or connection string helps, which I see you already tried.
Have you checked the MySQL error log for any hints? Ours is in /var/lib/mysql (whatever your 'datadir' variable is set to) and ends with a .err extension.
Also, maybe trying some of the other JDBC connection string options for your version? I see some extended logging you can enable.
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/connector-j-reference-configuration-properties.html
Found the issue. We are running our network on Savvis' cloud infrastructure. The Windows server instances we were using from Savvis had Trend Micro Deep Security Agent installed. This is an intrusion protection system and it was the problem. Disabling the service cleared up all communication errors. I have no clue why it was rejecting some queries that it had just accepted previously. I am just glad to (finally) put this behind me!
I'm facing a perplexing problem. I've completed a jsf web app that utlizes hibernate and infinispan with Tomcat7 and tomcat-jdbc-pool as the connection pool provider.
It is being deployed to a Linode cluster w/ 2 nodes -- one database server and one production server.
I can run the app on my local environment using the exact same copy of Tomcat7 (I literally tarred the tomcat directory and promoted it to the server to debug this error) -- even when connected to the live database instance. Everything runs fine.
When I attempt to run the application from the production server I get a MySQLIO error:
Caused by: java.net.ConnectException:
Connection refused
Looking further up in the logs i see:
The last packet sent successfully to
the server was 1 milliseconds ago. The
driver has not received any packets
from the server.
com.mysql.jdbc.exceptions.jdbc4.CommunicationsException:
Communications link failure
I can connect from the command line on the prodapp server just fine -- even using tcp:
mysql -h db01 -u user -p --protocol=tcp
But it just won't work running inside the Tomcat container. I've tried all kinds of things but I'm really stumped. It just seems strange that I can connect to the database server using the same copy of Tomcat7 locally but when deployed to production the same copy of tomcat7 can't connect -- even though I can connect from the command line on that production server ... I'm stumped.
Any help is greatly appreciated.
EDIT: Solved my problem after wasting too much good life on it. The answer was I'm stupid. Thanks to everyone who tried to help. I have the app moded w/ a dev and live mode and the connection pool was reading the dev mode this whole time. What really made it confusing is that the sessionfactory was moded to live so it would actually reach the live database and initialize a connection when it started up so i could see it connecting (and running meta data queries in the mysql log), but when it actually went to grab a connection from infinispan it blew up. Oh well -- at least it's working now. Thanks again.
If you're connecting to your MySQL database server from a different box, then you need to explicitly grant permission for that user account to connect from that IP.
You can do this whilst in the command line:
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON *.* TO 'username'#'ip_address'
EDIT: Granting all permissions on all tables generally isn't required, be specific about what permissions you want to grant (http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/grant.html)
To see what permissions you currently have:
USE mysql;
SELECT * FROM users;
My apologies if I'm patronising you, just that this is the most common problem that I come across.
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I'm getting a SQL Server error:
A transport-level error has occurred
when receiving results from the
server. (provider: Shared Memory
Provider, error: 0 - The handle is
invalid.)
I'm running Sql Server 2008 SP1, Windows 2008 Standard 64 bit.
It's a .Net 4.0 web application. It happens when a request is made to the server. It's intermittent. Any idea how I can resolve it?
The database connection is closed by the database server. The connection remains valid in the connection pool of your app; as a result, when you pickup the shared connection string and try to execute it's not able to reach the database. If you are developing Visual Studio, simply close the temporary web server on your task bar.
If it happens in production, resetting your application pool for your web site should recycle the connection pool.
Try the following command on the command prompt:
netsh interface tcp set global autotuning=disabled
This turns off the auto scaling abilities of the network stack
I had the same problem. I restarted Visual Studio and that fixed the problem
Transport level errors are often linked to the connection to sql server being broken ... usually network.
Timeout Expired is usually thrown when a sql query takes too long to run.
So few options can be :
Check for the connection in VPN (if used) or any other tool
Restart IIS
Restart machine
Optimize sql queries.
For those not using IIS, I had this issue when debugging with Visual Studio 2010. I ended all of the debugger processes: WebDev.WebServer40.EXE which solved the issue.
All you need is to Stop the ASP.NET Development Server and run the project again
If you are connected to your database via Microsoft SQL Server Management, close all your connections and retry.
Had this error when connected to another Azure Database, and worked for me when closed it.
Still don't know why ..
Look at the MSDN blog which details out this error:
Removing Connections
The connection pooler removes a connection from the pool after it has
been idle for a long time, or if the pooler detects that the
connection with the server has been severed.
Note that a severed connection can be detected only after attempting
to communicate with the server. If a connection is found that is no
longer connected to the server, it is marked as invalid.
Invalid connections are removed from the connection pool only when
they are closed or reclaimed.
If a connection exists to a server that has disappeared, this
connection can be drawn from the pool even if the connection pooler
has not detected the severed connection and marked it as invalid.
This is the case because the overhead of checking that the connection
is still valid would eliminate the benefits of having a pooler by
causing another round trip to the server to occur.
When this occurs, the first attempt to use the connection will detect
that the connection has been severed, and an exception is thrown.
Basically what you are seeing is that exception in the last sentence.
A connection is taken from the connection pool, the application does
not know that the physical connection is gone, an attempt to use it is
done under the assumption that the physical connection is still there.
And you get your exception.
There are a few common reasons for this.
The server has been restarted, this will close the existing connections.
In this case, have a look at the SQL Server log, usually found at:
C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\\MSSQL\LOG
If the timestamp for startup is very recent, then we can suspect that
this is what caused the error. Try to correlate this timestamp with
the time of exception.
2009-04-16 11:32:15.62 Server Logging SQL Server messages in file
‘C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL.1\MSSQL\LOG\ERRORLOG’.
Someone or something has killed the SPID that is being used.
Again, take a look in the SQL Server log. If you find a kill, try to
correlate this timestamp with the time of exception.
2009-04-16 11:34:09.57 spidXX Process ID XX was killed by
hostname xxxxx, host process ID XXXX.
There is a failover (in a mirror setup for example) again, take a look in the SQL Server log.
If there is a failover, try to correlate this timestamp with the time
of exception.
2009-04-16 11:35:12.93 spidXX The mirrored database “” is changing roles from “PRINCIPAL” to “MIRROR” due to
Failover.
Was getting this, always after about 5 minutes of operation. Investigated and found that a warning from e1iexpress always occurred before the failure. This apparently is an error having to do with certain TCP/IP adapters. But changing from WiFi to hardwired didn't affect it.
So tried Plan B and restarted Visual Studio. Then it worked fine.
On closer study I noticed that, when working correctly, the message The Thread '<No Name>' has exited with code 0 occurred at almost exactly the time the run crashed in previous attempts. Some Googling reveals that that message comes up when (among other things) the server is trimming the thread pool.
Presumably there was a bogus thread in the thread pool and every time the server attempted to "trim" it it took the app down.
You get this message when your script make SQL Service stopped for some reasons. so if you start SQL Service again perhaps your problem will be resolved.
I know this may not help everyone (who knows, maybe yes), but I had the same problem and after some time, we realized that the cause was something out of the code itself.
The computer trying to reach the server, was in another network, the connection could be established but then dropped.
The way we used to fix it, was to add a static route to the computer, allowing direct access to the server without passing thru the firewall.
route add –p YourServerNetwork mask NetworkMask Router
Sample:
route add –p 172.16.12.0 mask 255.255.255.0 192.168.11.2
I hope it helps someone, it's better to have this, at least as a clue, so if you face it, you know how to solve it.
I got the same error in Visual Studion 2012 development environment, stopped the IIS Express and rerun the application, it started working.
I had the same issue. I solved it, truncating the SQL Server LOG.
Check doing that, and then tell us, if this solution helped you.
For me the solution was totally different.
In my case I had an objectsource which required a datetimestamp parameter. Even though that ODS parameter ConvertEmptyStringToNull was true 1/1/0001 was being passed to SelectMethod. That in turn caused a sql datetime overflow exception when that datetime was passed to the sql server.
Added an additional check for datetime.year != 0001 and that solved it for me.
Weird that it would throw a transport level error and not a datetime overflow error.
Anyways..
In my case the "SQL Server" Server service stopped. When I restarted the service that enabled me to run the query and eliminate the error.
Its also a good idea to examine your query to find out why the query made this service stop
For me the answer is to upgrade the OS from 2008R2 to 2012R2, the solution of iisreset or restart apppool didn't work for me.
I also tried to turn of TCP Chimney Offload setting, but I didn't restart the server because it is a production server, which didn't work either.
We encountered this error recently between our business server and our database server.
The solution for us was to disable "IP Offloading" on the network interfaces.
Then the error went away.
One of the reason I found for this error is 'Packet Size=xxxxx' in connection string. if the value of xxxx is too large, we will see this error. Either remove this value and let SQL server handle it or keep it low, depending on the network capabilities.
It happened to me when I was trying to restore a SQL database and checked following Check Box in Options tab,
As it's a stand alone database server just closing down SSMS and reopening it solved the issue for me.
This occurs when the database is dropped and re-created some shared resources is still considering the database still exists, so when you re-run execute query to create tables in the database after it was re-created the error will not show again and Command(s) completed successfully. message will show instead of the error message Msg 233, Level 20, State 0, Line 0 A transport-level error has occurred when sending the request to the server. (provider: Shared Memory Provider, error: 0 - No process is on the other end of the pipe.).
Simply ignore this error when you are dropping and recreating databases and re-execute your DDL queries with no worries.
I faced the same issue recently, but i was not able to get answer in google.
So thought of sharing it here, so that it can help someone in future.
Error:
While executing query the query will provide few output then it will throw below error.
"Transport level error has occurred when receiving output from
server(TCP:provider,error:0- specified network name is no longer
available"
Solution:
Check the provider of that linked server
In that provider properties ,Enable "Allow inprocess" option for that particular provider to fix the issue.