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We are using Oracle Database 10g Enterprise Edition Release and we have an error on a query that gives us the error

Error: No more data to read from socket
SQLState:  null
ErrorCode: 17410

The query is similar to the following

select * from (
    select ... <many, MANY fields>
    from table   
    inner join
    left outer join
    left outer join
    inner join
    where string1='value1' and string2='value2'

) where rownum > 500 and rownum < 510

If I try to remove the final where statement the query runs fine. Also if I try to "reduce" the rownum filter to a lower level of records the query runs fine:

where rownum<10

Searching on internet I have found that it could be caused by the parameter "cursor_sharing" to "similar" that seems buggy on some version of oracle. I tried to set it to "exact" but unfortunately I have the same error.

I was wondering if the retrieved data of a select statement may have a limit in bytes in oracle10g but I haven't found anything. I have found a limit on oracle8i but nothing to oracle10g.

We have the same problem executing the query on different client (dbvisualizer, squirrel) and on oracle console.

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"No more data to read from socket" usually means "contact Oracle support" or try and work around what I presume is a bug by re-factoring your query. –  Jack Douglas Nov 9 '11 at 19:29

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No more data from socket means that the shadow process crashed, with an ORA-600 or ORA-7445, for example. Look for a trace file in the user_dump_dest directory and/or an entry in the alert log. This is likely a bug

See this :

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For future googlers,

My case was a glassfish 2 server hosting applications using hibernate.

The error is attributed to the Oracle DB server failing and glassfish does not recover.

Restarting the server solves the issue

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where rownum > 500 and rownum < 510

This will never work. The first row that is returned will get rownum=1. But your where condition says: do not return that row. Therefore you never will have any row.

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That may be the case, but an error "No more data to read from socket" isn't the same as a query returning 0 rows, but some bug. On the other hand, maybe this condition is somehow triggering the error? –  Colin 't Hart Jun 5 '14 at 13:36

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