I hate software
Jul. 15th, 2002 12:48 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
susandennisSome days I hate hardware and some days I hate software. Today is a software hating day. I have a simple ASP page on my company's intranet that the office manager uses to add to the list of people who have signed NDAs. It feeds the world's smallest and most simple database. It's been working fine for months. Friday, it quit working.
No error messages, no nothing. You enter data into the form and get the cheerful 'Thank you' page and the database remains untouched. This operation is so simple there is no way it could fail and yet fail it did. Over and over again. Troubleshooting was easy. Nothing had changed. Nothing wrong with the page. Nothing wrong with the database. Nothing wrong with the server. A nearly identical asp/database page on the same server and same website continues to run successfully.
I fiddled with this and fiddled with that and nothing worked. Nothing.
So finally, after wasting all of Monday morning, I created a new database in a new place on the server, imported the data into it, created a new asp page in a new place on the web and it works fine.
Did I mention that I hate software?
No error messages, no nothing. You enter data into the form and get the cheerful 'Thank you' page and the database remains untouched. This operation is so simple there is no way it could fail and yet fail it did. Over and over again. Troubleshooting was easy. Nothing had changed. Nothing wrong with the page. Nothing wrong with the database. Nothing wrong with the server. A nearly identical asp/database page on the same server and same website continues to run successfully.
I fiddled with this and fiddled with that and nothing worked. Nothing.
So finally, after wasting all of Monday morning, I created a new database in a new place on the server, imported the data into it, created a new asp page in a new place on the web and it works fine.
Did I mention that I hate software?
