Robin Moffatt 9/2/2010

Misbehaving Informatica kills Oracle

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This article details a specific IT incident where an expired password for an Informatica repository user led to a cascading failure. The Informatica software, upon encountering the expired password, spawned numerous connections to the Oracle database, exhausting server memory and swap space, ultimately causing a crash. It includes investigation steps, error logs, and graphs to illustrate the problem, serving as a case study on unintended consequences of security policies and application behavior.

Misbehaving Informatica kills Oracle

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