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There was once a world without Deezil.

And Google is here to prove it.

They’re new old search database is kinda nifty.

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I could do this all day.

Laundromats suck.

Just sayin.

Heading out of town to the drag races in Memphis.  Full report when I get back.

I’m starting to like this blogging thing after all.

Don’t mix and match databases, kids.

So, in my job, I have to deal a lot with Visual Basic (still currently VB 6, even though development is speeding on towards C#), and even more inside of SQL Server (2000/2005).  All of our applications are semi-self contained, with interfacing dlls to pass calls between the modules that have to communicate.  So, in all, everything is very independent.  There’s only one thing that we do that allows external communication, but it is relatively minor.  We have the ability to create a view of the data to be able to interface with 3rd party GIS solutions.  Usually, we set it up, it works, and that’s it.  That is, until something went wrong with it today.  This customer had a server changed out earlier this year, and unknown to anyone at the time, the mapping link was no longer working.  So, I took the call, let them know that the server name had changed, and that was it.  They accepted that as the workaround, and we ended the call.  Well, they called in later that day, and it still wasn’t working.  So I started digging.  Tried to set everything up as it had never had the mapping installed, didn’t work.  Tried setting up the ODBC DSN to see what was happening with it, and it wouldn’t allow the connection.  After re-setting the password on the account, and it still not connecting to the database, something connected in my brain.  When we set up a new server, we don’t keep the original master database, we use the one with the new install.  Well, the new server didn’t have the new log-in in it… until I tried to set it up earlier.  So what was up?

I then remembered that earlier, the setup of the solution had complained about something, and I thought it was just complaining about the SQL view being there.  Ran the same sql command, and looked at the other error that was right above the complaint about the view.  It complained about the login already created.  So I deleted it from the users in the master database.  And it still complained.

So, I had to dig more.

Found that the user was also stuck on the database.  But why wouldn’t it work, didn’t I just create it?  The underlying answer to all of this: no, I didn’t create it.  It had been there all the time.  There was one customer login that was with the old master database, and when the old server was turned off, it severed the connection with the external database.  The new customer login was a fully different account, just happened to share the same name.  In the end, I had to remove all traces of the login from the database, the schema, and the roles, and then have the stored procedures re-create all them.  In the end, the amount of work was 5 minutes.  The discovery took over an hour.  And the experience, as is said, was priceless.

Waking up early and going to bed late.

http://ask.metafilter.com/102417/Why-doesnt-my-cat-understand-I-have-an-alarm-clock

I love that damn stupid cat.  Let’s see how that tape I put on the door works for him.

Diem.

There’s one interesting thing that happens to me each day.  Sometimes, it makes me realize that my life sucks.  Sometimes, it gives me insight on a problem I’ve been facing.  Other times, it makes me laugh.  On the odd chance, I’ll even cry.

Today was one that just left me in awe.

I was on-site in Ohio, and I had been here before and gotten to know everyone really well.  Great group of guys and gals.  Well, one of the guys and I were paired up in his vehicle to go out for the training, and when he gets in, he tells me that since my last time up (March), lots of things have changed.  His wife of more years than I have been alive packed her bags, told him he could have everything else, and walked out.  No explanation (at the time), no hints that it was coming, nothing.  Just goodbye.  Obviously, he’s having a hard time dealing with it.  And over the course of the day, he told me more of the story, digging deeper and deeper into his soul, and sharing it with someone that he’d only known for a short period of time, and had met and talked to even less.  I let him say his piece, because talking helps him.  It was about 15 minutes before I left, that I realized how much I think I had meant to him, by doing nothing more than listen.  He’s a good man, and I wish him the best.

His story made me want to start blogging again, because every day is new.  From the time you wake up, until the time you go to sleep, memories are being made.  I’ve killed off enough brain cells with alcohol that I’m afraid I’m going to lose something important one of these days, and before I forget, I want to make my story, and post it here.  Sure, some nights posts are going to be doled out a fingerpoke at a time, coming in from the bar, some nights will have me banging away at the keyboard with the cat in my lap.  There may even be the occasional phone post or two.  You might hear my voice, or even see a video (let me see how Utterli does for those two).  But I realize, just like the guy today, I have a story to tell, and I need to tell it, because someday, my little world may come to an end, and then no one will know my story.  And to be forgotten is even worse than death, because at least when you die, your story lives on.

Time to wake up.  Grab a brand new day.  Make a story.  Regret nothing.  Live.

More Paris Hilton debauchery.

Time to check back in on Paris.

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Paris Hilton High Colonic Commercial, Exclusive Preview
Paris Hilton Releases Tinkerbell Linux?
Lindsay Lohan: I just know Sherrif Lee Baca loves me as much as Paris!?
Paris Hilton Declared One of the Seven Most Unique Wonders of the World!
Paris Hilton Issues Press Release Requesting No Press Releases??
Paris Hilton Dumps Bimbo Act, Finds God, Turning a Charitable Leaf
Paris Hilton Gets Religion, Says She is Saved While in Prison
Paris Hilton covered in excrement?
Paris Hilton charges for Pussy?
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Paris Hilton: Harvard loves my cooter!
Paris Hilton’s vagina bites mailman!