Aah Bollocks.
That was my first thought on Friday 6th April, when I walked into work to discover our major business system being out of action with a dodgy error, a quick phone call later to the “support people” and…
it was still fubar’ed 🙁
Its now the 14th April, its 9:33am and I’m in work doing overtime… the system has essentially been offline for over 7 days now (well there’s a slight discrepancy to this but i’ll get back to it in a second.) and we are trying a different course of action.
So, our great business system is a case management system, with an Oracle8.1.7 Back-end (oracle have released a version 11 recently) and the problem has occurred within Oracle, or so we are told… as nobody here in the Company has a clue about Oracle we have to trust what we are told by people who work on it.
When I say its been offline for 7 days, its a bit of a white lie… The support team and the contractors we dragged in to assist us (they have oracle specialists 😀 ) managed to get us a working system from a backup of the 30th March, with some patching and bug fixing it was operational… until Senior Management (Brain cells optional I believe) decided that since we do “backups” that we can get all the information until Thursday 5th back. This then got complicated very quickly.
 So today, we have the contractors back (I hope, Im currently the only person in the bloody building beside Security 🙁 ) to try some funky stuff with Archive Logs, Monday Nights flat file Backup, and jiggery-pokeryâ„¢ Lets hope something works!
On a side note, Jaymes(my boss) and his wife now has something else on their hands apart from renovating his house, a bouncing baby boy 😀 congrats to them both on a job well done!
Now, lets see whos for turning up next…
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HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
err, I mean, I feel your pain brother 🙁 I’m at work too, and it’s 24C out with a completely clear blue sky. At least, so security tell me, as they can actually see outside from whereever it is they hang out in the bunker. We also have 8.1.7, though thank god I’m not a DBA heh. Didn’t it go *dinosaurs, oracle releases version 8, dinos die, time passes, current day*? Hope things work out for you Col matey, think of me once my apps people say all is well as I’ll be off down the park to oogle chicks in bikini tops. With luck I’ll get arrested! Or slapped! Or both!
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