I spent three flipping hours this morning trying to resolve a problem with a development and quality assurance servers. This morning our server and network teams decided to reset the network card configuration so it would start using gigabit ethernet instead of 100/full.

Great.

That shouldn’t have any bearing on why my application won’t connnect to the database. They’re on the same machine. But its CONCEIVABLE that the change did something unintended. So I spent three hours trying to track down the problem.

FINALLY a DBA says, oh by the way, we installed some new software on those two machines that changed the PATH environment variable so SAP was trying to connect to Oracle with an incompatible DLL!!

THREE HOURS!

And they knew what I was doing for the last TWO hours! This is what kills me. They don’t let people know what’s going on. If I had known there was new software that had been recently installed I wouldn’t have been so focused on the network.

Razzafrazzagrazzit!!!

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