test please delete

[zeitghost]

On which happyish note:



Byeeee




I wonder if the 16:28 will be in reverse formation this week.

It's a pain in the arris when 1st class is at the rear, have to walk miles.

[TheFaQQer]

[TheFaQQer]

The birthday party is in full swing downstairs.

[TheFaQQer]

Which is why I'm "working" upstairs.

[TheFaQQer]

I've just had to tell the DBA how many patches she needs to install.

The same number you have installed every time you've done it.

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[Zippy]

There should be no more than 10000 records in the table, but the duff code has generated several million more.

And nobody wrote anything to purge the data once it was no longer required.

It's currently taking up 44GB of disk space

Impressive . Are they all jobsworths?

[TheFaQQer]

Impressive . Are they all jobsworths?

None of them are, really. They are generally just pretty clueless!

The system has been live for nearly two years now. And the DBA only spotted the size of the tables in August when there were 70 million records in the system (99.999% duff data). Now there are 316 million records in the system.

There is so much crap data, that it's nearly impossible to fix the problem - I can write code to identify the duff data. But because it takes an hour to run, the database errors out because of the chance that the data has changed too much.

Without kicking everyone out while they produce a fix, there's not much they can do. And they don't want to kick everyone out, because it's a world-wide system.

[TheFaQQer]

I think I would be having some serious words with the consultancy that they brought in to do the work, which I've binned and started from scratch.

[Zippy]

Without kicking everyone out while they produce a fix, there's not much they can do. And they don't want to kick everyone out, because it's a world-wide system.

I hope it's not nuclear energy

[TheFaQQer]

They've decided to move to a new environment and test there.

Where I have no access to anything, so can't help out when they fail again