Problems setting isolation level with the bundled Sun driver for Sybase Adaptive Server. (ID 6189199)

Description

• Applications using the TRANSACTION_SERIALIZABLE isolation level with the bundled Sun driver for Sybase Adaptive Server may hang when using a prepared statement to update if two parallel transactions are running and one of them is rolled back. Connection rollback fails with following message, and the rolled back connections cannot be used anymore:

  java.sql.SQLException: [sunm][Sybase JDBC Driver]Request cannot be submitted due to wire contention

• Sybase Adaptive Server does not support the TRANSACTION_REPEATABLE_READ isolation level. However, querying DatabaseMetaData, the bundled Sun driver returns that this isolation level is supported by the database. Applications using the this isolation level will fail.

• Applications using the bundled Sun driver cannot set the TRANSACTION_READ_UNCOMMITTED isolation level. The application throws the following exception on the first DataBaseMetaData access:

  java.sql.SQLException: [sunm][Sybase JDBC Driver][Sybase]The optimizer could not find a unique index which it could use to perform an isolation level 0 scan on table 'sybsystemprocs.dbo.spt_server_info'.

Solution

None at this time.