BAM Portal Activity Search: "This action cannot be performed because one or more database(s) appears corrupted"

Hi,

I noticed this error when I tried to search on an Activity in the BAM Portal.

I googled and noticed a good description about this issue by Gilles but it did not help me resolve the problem.

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/gzunino/archive/2006/07/12/663790.aspx

So I thought of fixing it in the BAM (BAMPrimaryImport)database as it clearly said about duplicate entry. I searched on the ActivityID and found only 1 record in "bam_ActivityName_active" table and I also found 1 record in the "bam_ActivityName_completed" Activity table.
SELECT * FROM [BAMPrimaryImport].dbo.bam_ActivityName_active where ActivityID='{42B99A00-4A43-40D4-8F6F-183851984197}'

So I thought that its not a duplicate issue as the Error says as I saw only 1 entry in each tables.

But I was wrong.

The issue is that there should not be any pending records in the Active tables if  the Activity is completed ie. if there exist a record in _Completed table for the same ActivityID.

In my case I intiated an Activity(BeginActivity) and Biztalk failed while updating the Actvity(UpdateActivity)and after that I completed the Activity(EndActivity). So there was an Orphan record in the _active table.

So I deleted all the records from _active table and it worked fine.

DELETE FROM [BAMPrimaryImport].dbo.bam_ActivityName_active

So this is what BizTalk means by Duplicate records.

"There should not be a record in the _active table if the activity has a record in the _completed table for the same ActivityID.If it exist then its a duplicate Error."

Error in Eventlog was as follows:
Event Type: Error
Event Source: BAM Portal
Description:
(BAMPortal.PortalApplication) Void LogAllErrors(System.Exception[]): System.Web.HttpUnhandledException: Exception of type 'System.Web.HttpUnhandledException' was thrown. ---> System.Web.Services.Protocols.SoapException: System.Web.Services.Protocols.SoapException: There are instances with duplicate ID '{42B99A00-4A43-40D4-8F6F-183851984197}' in activity 'xxx'. The duplicates must be removed from the database to fix this problem.
   at Microsoft.BizTalk.Bam.WebServices.Query.BamQueryService.GetInstanceData(String viewName, String activityName, InstanceQuery query, Int32 timeout)
   at System.Web.Services.Protocols.SoapHttpClientProtocol.ReadResponse(SoapClientMessage message, WebResponse response, Stream responseStream, Boolean asyncCall)
   at System.Web.Services.Protocols.SoapHttpClientProtocol.Invoke(String methodName, Object[] parameters)
   at Microsoft.BizTalk.Bam.WebServices.QueryService.BamQueryService.GetInstanceData(String viewName, String activityName, InstanceQuery query, Int32 timeout)
   at Microsoft.BizTalk.Bam.Portal.DataAccess.QueryResultsObjectDataSource.ExecuteQuery(SQLQuery query)
   at Microsoft.BizTalk.Bam.Portal.DataAccess.QueryResultsObjectDataSource.EnsureData(SQLQuery query)
   at Microsoft.BizTalk.Bam.Portal.DataAccess.QueryResultsObjectDataSource.QueryResults(SQLQuery query)
   at BAMPortal.Search_aspx.ExecuteQuery()
   at BAMPortal.Search_aspx.executeQueryButton_Click(Object sender, CommandEventArgs e)
   at System.Web.UI.WebControls.Button.OnCommand(CommandEventArgs e)
   at System.Web.UI.WebControls.Button.RaisePostBackEvent(String eventArgument)
   at System.Web.UI.WebControls.Button.System.Web.UI.IPostBackEventHandler.RaisePostBackEvent(String eventArgument)
   at System.Web.UI.Page.RaisePostBackEvent(IPostBackEventHandler sourceControl, String eventArgument)
   at System.Web.UI.Page.RaisePostBackEvent(NameValueCollection postData)
   at System.Web.UI.Page.ProcessRequestMain(Boolean includeStagesBeforeAsyncPoint, Boolean includeStagesAfterAsyncPoint)
   --- End of inner exception stack trace ---
   at System.Web.UI.Page.HandleError(Exception e)
   at System.Web.UI.Page.ProcessRequestMain(Boolean includeStagesBeforeAsyncPoint, Boolean includeStagesAfterAsyncPoint)
   at System.Web.UI.Page.ProcessRequest(Boolean includeStagesBeforeAsyncPoint, Boolean includeStagesAfterAsyncPoint)
   at System.Web.UI.Page.ProcessRequest()
   at System.Web.UI.Page.ProcessRequestWithNoAssert(HttpContext context)
   at System.Web.UI.Page.ProcessRequest(HttpContext context)
   at ASP.pages_search_aspx.ProcessRequest(HttpContext context)
   at System.Web.HttpApplication.CallHandlerExecutionStep.System.Web.HttpApplication.IExecutionStep.Execute()
   at System.Web.HttpApplication.ExecuteStep(IExecutionStep step, Boolean& completedSynchronously)


Happy Talking Biz. ;)