Question

We are receiving an error from System.Data.OracleClient : Invalid operation. The connection is closed.

The error appears randomly with an incidence about 1 in every 1000 operations.

What could be the problem?

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Maybe i got the answer.

The connection object was used like this:

[Serializable]
public abstract class BaseWizard : IBaseWizard
{

    [NonSerialized]
    protected static ISession _session;


    protected static ISession Session
    {

        get
        {
            if (_session == null)
                _session = Session.Create(ConnectionType.DEFINED);
            return _session;
        }
    }
}

(Session is a personalized dbconnection object )

and even though there was the check latter if (!Session.IsOpen) Session.Open there was a chance that after checking the state a before running the command some other operation might close the connection, and as you can see as the Session object is static the new operation will find the connection closed

The problem would be that if the connection would not be static that will mean a loot of opened connection / session in the db

is there another way to fix this leaving the connection static?

Answer 1

Watch out for the transactions, they are the ones that were causing me this problem:

System.InvalidOperationException: Invalid operation. The connection is closed.
   at System.Data.OracleClient.OracleConnection.GetOpenInternalConnection()
   at System.Data.OracleClient.OracleConnection.get_ErrorHandle()
   at System.Data.OracleClient.OracleDataReader.ReadInternal()
   at System.Data.OracleClient.OracleDataReader.Read()
   at Microsoft.Practices.EnterpriseLibrary.Data.Oracle.OracleDataReaderWrapper.Read()

The default TransactionScope timeout is 60 seconds, but my recording process was taking more than this sometimes (I should put only code to write to the DB on this process, but there is a lot of reading commands). So the exception was happening randomly… Changing the timeout value make this work. It took me so long to figure it out because the description of the error (Invalid operation. The connection is closed.) wasn’t clear to link it with transaction issues.

I don’t know if your problem is the same as mine, but that’s how I handled that. Hope it helps you someway.