Monday, February 14, 2005

When it rains...

This isn't really related to Doug, except that for the timing.

This week at work sucked. Our major client was having intermittant server problems - on the other side of the world. We could not reproduce it to save our lives, yet the server was crashing regularly. Oh yeah, it was a peak processing mission critical time there. Major stress. These guys are our bread and butter, and on top of everything else that was happening, having to fly off to fix a server wasn't really high on my list.

Would you believe that it turned out being a combination of a JDBC database driver bug (that only occurred in the most rare cases) and the wrong version of SQL Server being installed? Sometimes I want to laugh, and other times I want to strangle someone. But mostly I just feel drained.

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