[ale] hard drive and databases and missing data

[James P. Kinney III]

Except that if that were the case, the problem would be persistent, not
intermittent. The exact same setup, right down to version numbers, is
running with no problems on the production server. The demo box was a
clone made from the backups of the production box.

On Sat, 2003-03-15 at 14:14, Marvin Dickens wrote:
> On 15 Mar 2003 22:26:14 -0500
> "James P. Kinney III" <jkinney at localnetsolutions.com> wrote the following:
> 
>  
> > Earlier the missing data symptom was shown to have been caused by a
> > user-unfriendly bug in procedure. That was solved by having properly
> > trained people on the keyboard. Now it appears to be random data loss
> > from the database. There are two fields that are always populated OK.
> > The remaining 35 are either all intact or all blank.
> 
> 
> This sounds like broken proceedure in the  sql programming and not user input errors. It sounds like the data variable that contains the date has some code in the loop that somehow overwrites the data in the variable or else is reseting the data variable to empty.
> 
> Best regards
> 
> 
> Marvin Dickens
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