Hi

I am experiencing an issue like ,

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FATAL ERROR IN DATABASE I/O. FOCUS TERMINATING ERROR WRITING FOCSORT

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Any idea when will this happen ?? and what might be the reason ??

Not enough disk space to write the focsort file. This goes in edatemp. Make sure you have enough disk space in edatemp.

Also, look at your fex to make sure you are not bringing back too much data to be sorted by WebFOCUS.

Just a couple of ideas since you didn't give any detail on the program.

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Originally posted by Navin:
Hi

I am experiencing an issue like ,

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FATAL ERROR IN DATABASE I/O. FOCUS TERMINATING ERROR WRITING FOCSORT

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Any idea when will this happen ?? and what might be the reason ??

From the looks of it, it appears you are retrieving more data than the sort space can handle on your application server.

FOCSORT . . .

Ok i have 6k Records as an output in the Qry Fex . .
But before it outputs 6k records, the query will be processing more than 500000 records. . .

Is that FOCSORT fie responsible for capturing all these intermediate records ??

Only processes them if they meet selection criteria. But if you have code inefficiencies like WHERE test on a DEFINEd field, you could be processing all 500000+ records and yes, they would all be in the FOCSORT file.

But the real problem is that you have insufficient disk space allocated for server temporary files (edatemp)

If you're accessing DBMS tables, check that efficient SQL is being generated - turn SQL traces on. As previously mentioned, you may be bringing down too much data - you should let the DBMS take care of most of the work and then bring down only the 6k rows you're interested in.