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2085398 - How to find and remove stranded or "orphan" temporary tables ? - SAP ASE

Symptom

There are different ways that orphan temporary tables can be stranded, for example:

  • ASE errorlog may report errors like 3702 or 622.
  • Space used by system tables such as syscolumns and syspartitions in one or more temporary databases may seem excessive
  • A query causes the transaction log fill-up and be aborted by the ASE server.
  • #temptables are not dropped from a temporary database

How are orphan temporary tables dropped from a temporary database, other than a reboot of the ASE server?


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Environment

SAP Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) all versions

Product

SAP Adaptive Server Enterprise 15.7 ; SAP Adaptive Server Enterprise 16.0 ; Sybase Adaptive Server Enterprise 12.5 ; Sybase Adaptive Server Enterprise 15.0 ; Sybase Adaptive Server Enterprise 15.5

Keywords

#tables, objects, orphantables, temp, locks, tempdb, temporary database, orphan tables, orphaned #temporary tables, exclusive locks, GA1105, "Guided Answers" , KBA , BC-SYB-ASE , Sybase ASE Database Platform (non Business Suite) , How To

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