Testing

Just a couple of answers to some of the recurring questions and themes in comments after our about-turn announcement in the previous entry. Unauthenticated Comments: These will not be switched off. There are a huge number more people that value this facility than the couple of babies on the site that continue to misuse it….

Atomic Albums search engine was one potential cause of a problem, this problem (displaying all pictures on the entire site if no search criteria specified) is now fixed, and a better way of displaying the pictures will be implemented in the next few days…. Sorry again. Steve.

In the continuing saga of the database crashing, I’ve made some tweaks to the query after Matt noticed it was locking trying to remove a temporary table. The temporary tables were created as a result of the speedups we put in place for the old server, which aren’t really necessary on this new server. So…

OK, I’ve optimized (read, recoded) a BUNCH of queries on the server – some of them in the old Perl code (which really is beginning to show its age now!) and a couple in the new .Net code (which shouldn’t have barfed but oh well you live and learn)… The slow query log is trapping…

I can confirm it is now fixed. Not sure why it happened but the code was adding a day to the time from the server! Very odd. Its now fixed however. Steve.

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