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I want to be home. I want to be gaming. I'm at work, I'm being productive (okay, I'm waiting for the computer to finish being productive so I can go back to being productive).
WhatwhatWHAT?
Talking to my boss about installing something, he gave me a CD to install it. And mentioned that a client site had thrown out all the material and CDs we had left so they would have them if needed, because they didn't think they'd need it.
IDIOTS!
I'm not surprised. That's the same site that wanted me to get their database up and running for them, even though the hard drive was dead and the data was preserved only in backups of the database, which needed to be run back to the appropriate database setup on a machine with considerable disk space, and which took over a day to run in the end. How they thought I would get it back up "right now" I have no idea. It's not most of the personnel; most of them seem quite sensible! It's the one admin who's technically "in charge" of the techie side, and is so tech-clueless he makes me hurt just thinking about it.
Called someone to ask about pricing (for Boundschecker). Called after their office closed, but that's okay; they'll get my message and call me back tomorrow and we can connect. I want this software. I have a vague recollection of it being spendy (but not "very spendy" by business standards): maybe $800 per installation? Not sure.
It was something gross. I still want it. Want to know the price so we can try to ask. I got to use a previous version (it wasn't compatible with the Dev Studio 6 when we switched), and it just RULED. Very nice software, caught lots of things that would otherwise have been an absolute bear and a half to track down.
Responded to a bunch of requests for information. Yay, spamming my boss more. With useful information, at least. Gave a salesguy the info he wanted, second time in two weeks our turnaround was good and our information fantastic enough that he copied his boss on the thank-you. Hope he doesn't think it means we're giving him special treatment. It just means he's asking questions that have answers he likes, so far. :)
One of the requests required a minor bit of testing to see how hard the information was to get at. That was kind of fun; it was really, really easy. (There are some other considerations, but not very many. On my end. Once more, the file maintenance team will hate us, I suppose. As long as the feature wasn't enabled, the code to enter its data in didn't have to work.)
Then I fought with Oracle configuration some more. Hint one: "easy config" is NOT EASY. Hate that program. D. finally helped me get it set up. Then I couldn't connect anyway, so we rebooted to try to get the path right. You would think the install would require a reboot; it didn't. You would think I would remember this is Windows, and reboot anyway; I was lazy, and I didn't.
WooHOO! The database is up, I can connect after a reboot, and all the tables link! Notice one is missing primary key, apologize to DBA and ask him to add that (is MY script, so MY fault, but a little late for that and I don't know how to fix it properly yet). Meanwhile, try to paste my data into another table. Non-system table cannot use system rollback space, fatal error. Call DBA again (no apologizing this time but sympathy - I've had enough screwed installs, might's well be cheerful when it's someone else's). Go to break room for more water. No water. Fine, it's a soda day anyway. Dr. Pepper can make it all better, right? Or at least make my throat burn so I'm more thinking about that than the database....
Made the decision to work late. I can connect, I can do this, but it's 5 pm. If I work late tonight, however, then N. will be able to start testing tomorrow morning instead of fiddling away part of the morning while I continue to tweak and import.
Poor N. As I was working on this, she came back - they were about to sign papers on the house they were buying, when the girl buying their house withdrew her offer. Which, since this was at the top of their range, forced them to withdraw their offer...ick.
5:45 WHEN SOMEONE TELLS YOU THIS SYSTEM WILL BE WORKED ON BY MULTIPLE PEOPLE AND PLAY NICE, THAT DOES NOT MEAN "UNPLUG IT FROM THE FUCKING NETWORK WITHOUT WARNING". Way to kill my connection.... Most beautifully, because the Access-Oracle integration SUCKS, I thought I'd completed four operations that actually died. DON'T UNPLUG THE NETWORKED SYSTEM FROM THE NETWORK without warning! Aaaaah!
Okay, calming down now. Too much caffeine, no more soda. I want water. The tapwater here is gross.... Besides, to be fair, I'm fairly sure he (a) is habitually used to working on systems that are just his to mess with however he wants, and (b) had no particular reason at this hour to think someone would still be working on it.
Aw, FUCK. I can't delete the things I loaded in error? What the HELL is that? Okay. Access is being a pain, but I can do it through SQL Plus at the command line. Now back to pasting records in....
6:15 Still pasting records in, but now from the other database. Another 15 minutes and I'll be able to try connecting to the bugger. I was supposed to be roleplaying tonight.... I should still have time, I should be home by 7:30 or 8:00 I hope.
6:30 Okay maybe that was optimistic. Still pasting...close, though, close. Darnit. The machine I can use to paste is the machine that has to build, and disk churn from the build will just make this MORE agonizing...builds are quick, though, it doesn't have to work MUCH before I go home....
6:50 Data load, including a kludge to fill in a table that crosses between the two sets of data I was getting from different systems (hey, one had no geo, the other had all-wrong settings, DON'T YOU LOVE kludges?), complete. Compiling the world now. Another 15 minutes, and I can install it in the lab and see if it all blows up or not.
It just finished...Wish me luck....
WhatwhatWHAT?
Talking to my boss about installing something, he gave me a CD to install it. And mentioned that a client site had thrown out all the material and CDs we had left so they would have them if needed, because they didn't think they'd need it.
IDIOTS!
I'm not surprised. That's the same site that wanted me to get their database up and running for them, even though the hard drive was dead and the data was preserved only in backups of the database, which needed to be run back to the appropriate database setup on a machine with considerable disk space, and which took over a day to run in the end. How they thought I would get it back up "right now" I have no idea. It's not most of the personnel; most of them seem quite sensible! It's the one admin who's technically "in charge" of the techie side, and is so tech-clueless he makes me hurt just thinking about it.
Called someone to ask about pricing (for Boundschecker). Called after their office closed, but that's okay; they'll get my message and call me back tomorrow and we can connect. I want this software. I have a vague recollection of it being spendy (but not "very spendy" by business standards): maybe $800 per installation? Not sure.
It was something gross. I still want it. Want to know the price so we can try to ask. I got to use a previous version (it wasn't compatible with the Dev Studio 6 when we switched), and it just RULED. Very nice software, caught lots of things that would otherwise have been an absolute bear and a half to track down.
Responded to a bunch of requests for information. Yay, spamming my boss more. With useful information, at least. Gave a salesguy the info he wanted, second time in two weeks our turnaround was good and our information fantastic enough that he copied his boss on the thank-you. Hope he doesn't think it means we're giving him special treatment. It just means he's asking questions that have answers he likes, so far. :)
One of the requests required a minor bit of testing to see how hard the information was to get at. That was kind of fun; it was really, really easy. (There are some other considerations, but not very many. On my end. Once more, the file maintenance team will hate us, I suppose. As long as the feature wasn't enabled, the code to enter its data in didn't have to work.)
Then I fought with Oracle configuration some more. Hint one: "easy config" is NOT EASY. Hate that program. D. finally helped me get it set up. Then I couldn't connect anyway, so we rebooted to try to get the path right. You would think the install would require a reboot; it didn't. You would think I would remember this is Windows, and reboot anyway; I was lazy, and I didn't.
WooHOO! The database is up, I can connect after a reboot, and all the tables link! Notice one is missing primary key, apologize to DBA and ask him to add that (is MY script, so MY fault, but a little late for that and I don't know how to fix it properly yet). Meanwhile, try to paste my data into another table. Non-system table cannot use system rollback space, fatal error. Call DBA again (no apologizing this time but sympathy - I've had enough screwed installs, might's well be cheerful when it's someone else's). Go to break room for more water. No water. Fine, it's a soda day anyway. Dr. Pepper can make it all better, right? Or at least make my throat burn so I'm more thinking about that than the database....
Made the decision to work late. I can connect, I can do this, but it's 5 pm. If I work late tonight, however, then N. will be able to start testing tomorrow morning instead of fiddling away part of the morning while I continue to tweak and import.
Poor N. As I was working on this, she came back - they were about to sign papers on the house they were buying, when the girl buying their house withdrew her offer. Which, since this was at the top of their range, forced them to withdraw their offer...ick.
5:45 WHEN SOMEONE TELLS YOU THIS SYSTEM WILL BE WORKED ON BY MULTIPLE PEOPLE AND PLAY NICE, THAT DOES NOT MEAN "UNPLUG IT FROM THE FUCKING NETWORK WITHOUT WARNING". Way to kill my connection.... Most beautifully, because the Access-Oracle integration SUCKS, I thought I'd completed four operations that actually died. DON'T UNPLUG THE NETWORKED SYSTEM FROM THE NETWORK without warning! Aaaaah!
Okay, calming down now. Too much caffeine, no more soda. I want water. The tapwater here is gross.... Besides, to be fair, I'm fairly sure he (a) is habitually used to working on systems that are just his to mess with however he wants, and (b) had no particular reason at this hour to think someone would still be working on it.
Aw, FUCK. I can't delete the things I loaded in error? What the HELL is that? Okay. Access is being a pain, but I can do it through SQL Plus at the command line. Now back to pasting records in....
6:15 Still pasting records in, but now from the other database. Another 15 minutes and I'll be able to try connecting to the bugger. I was supposed to be roleplaying tonight.... I should still have time, I should be home by 7:30 or 8:00 I hope.
6:30 Okay maybe that was optimistic. Still pasting...close, though, close. Darnit. The machine I can use to paste is the machine that has to build, and disk churn from the build will just make this MORE agonizing...builds are quick, though, it doesn't have to work MUCH before I go home....
6:50 Data load, including a kludge to fill in a table that crosses between the two sets of data I was getting from different systems (hey, one had no geo, the other had all-wrong settings, DON'T YOU LOVE kludges?), complete. Compiling the world now. Another 15 minutes, and I can install it in the lab and see if it all blows up or not.
It just finished...Wish me luck....
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Have to make sure this one will, but. We shall see.