Re:Brown M&Ms, or Why No One Reads the Manual
by DoubleGlazing on Thursday July 30, 2020 @07:57AM
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In this case the server app had multiple DLLs imported from other projects and they had been compiled against a specific version of the Oracle .net driver.
My docs clearly stated that you should not update the driver unless you were willing to rebuild all the other projects as well. I could only deploy one copy of the driver file, so it had to be the version all the different parts of the application were expecting. It was an old app, whoever started development on it didn't know about repositories and DB singletons - there were DB connections all over the place.
The annoying thing is that the .net error message they were getting actually stated what the problem was in fairly clear terms, yet they still called me.
That was the first time they called.
I made a perfect confluence-wiki, for every server a page, for every application on that server a sub-page.
The Code-repo-links the config's the howto's everything was in there, the second time about 2 month after i went for the other job, they floded a Oracle-Db, called me and asked really rude what a shit installation i made, so i asked for the server pointed them to the Wiki-site and the first sentence boldly written said: DEV-VM -> DB-scheme-migration (DONT put DATAS IN, 20GB-DISK)