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candidgameraFriday was annoying. I was up till 3AM (Thursday night?) taking care of backups and running the initial database setup scripts, then puttered off to bed for five hours and went into work at 9AM to do the software upgrades. Everything went smoothly. Some co-workers and I came in Saturday at 9AM to test. Couple of hiccups, but nothing we couldn't handle. All is well.
Other DBA kicks off an Oracle job to gather statistics on the database, which will basically make it run faster. (Since we did a full export/import, we lost our statistics.) Weird things begin to happen. The database becomes unstable, and crashes. The reporting database CLONED from the upgraded database, meanwhile, is rock-solid. Even when we gather stats on it.
Nothing like this error has occurred in my six months of testing with our upgrade database.
After a few attempts to remedy the instability, we are forced to declare the upgrade a failure. Sunday, working from home, we revert the various software code trees to their previous incarnations and restore the cold backup of the pre-upgrade database. We have to hand the error to Oracle tech support to resolve - it's beyond us.
In other news, my rabbit trap caught a cat. Not just any cat, but Cat. Cat is a regular visitor - or, at least, she uses my yard regularly as a part of her patrolling path. I think Cat is an owned cat, though she has no collar, she is in excellent health and seems well-fed. She's roamed the neighborhood since the first year I've lived there. Cat has always been skittish, though, so I'd never gotten close to her.
Friday, I came home and noticed the door to the trap was closed. A-ha! My heart sailed at the prospect the rabbit may have been caught, then fell as I saw a black and white thing in the cage. Muttering silent prayers that I hadn't caught a skunk, I edged closer for investigation. Laying on its side, with its back to me, was Cat. I worried that Cat may have been dead or injured, because Cat seemed very still, so I spoke up - and Cat awakened from its peaceful nap instantly, and meowed at me.
While apparently displeased with its captivity, Cat was not so displeased as to miss afternoon naptime. Assuring Cat I would return quickly, I stepped inside to grab some gloves - I had assumed that the release of Cat from the cage might involve hissing and scratching, especially with Cat's aloof nature.
Heh. Cat was apparently grateful for its release, and wound around my legs and submitted to head-petting for the better part of half an hour. No scratching ensued. I even stepped inside again, briefly, and fetched Cat a snack - some sliced turkey from the fridge. Cat didn't seem terribly hungry at first, but enjoyed the taste. She licked the turkey over and over again until she'd worn a hole in it. Finally some bits actually made it to her mouth, and she ate about half of it before decided it was time to groom. Then she resumed her patrol.
And now, a LOLCat.
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Other DBA kicks off an Oracle job to gather statistics on the database, which will basically make it run faster. (Since we did a full export/import, we lost our statistics.) Weird things begin to happen. The database becomes unstable, and crashes. The reporting database CLONED from the upgraded database, meanwhile, is rock-solid. Even when we gather stats on it.
Nothing like this error has occurred in my six months of testing with our upgrade database.
After a few attempts to remedy the instability, we are forced to declare the upgrade a failure. Sunday, working from home, we revert the various software code trees to their previous incarnations and restore the cold backup of the pre-upgrade database. We have to hand the error to Oracle tech support to resolve - it's beyond us.
In other news, my rabbit trap caught a cat. Not just any cat, but Cat. Cat is a regular visitor - or, at least, she uses my yard regularly as a part of her patrolling path. I think Cat is an owned cat, though she has no collar, she is in excellent health and seems well-fed. She's roamed the neighborhood since the first year I've lived there. Cat has always been skittish, though, so I'd never gotten close to her.
Friday, I came home and noticed the door to the trap was closed. A-ha! My heart sailed at the prospect the rabbit may have been caught, then fell as I saw a black and white thing in the cage. Muttering silent prayers that I hadn't caught a skunk, I edged closer for investigation. Laying on its side, with its back to me, was Cat. I worried that Cat may have been dead or injured, because Cat seemed very still, so I spoke up - and Cat awakened from its peaceful nap instantly, and meowed at me.
While apparently displeased with its captivity, Cat was not so displeased as to miss afternoon naptime. Assuring Cat I would return quickly, I stepped inside to grab some gloves - I had assumed that the release of Cat from the cage might involve hissing and scratching, especially with Cat's aloof nature.
Heh. Cat was apparently grateful for its release, and wound around my legs and submitted to head-petting for the better part of half an hour. No scratching ensued. I even stepped inside again, briefly, and fetched Cat a snack - some sliced turkey from the fridge. Cat didn't seem terribly hungry at first, but enjoyed the taste. She licked the turkey over and over again until she'd worn a hole in it. Finally some bits actually made it to her mouth, and she ate about half of it before decided it was time to groom. Then she resumed her patrol.
And now, a LOLCat.
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