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Impromptu Outage
Wed Dec 28 2005

Hello all, I hope you all had a great Christmas - we certainly enjoyed the break and are looking forward to 2006, which promises to be an exciting year for DearDiary.Net so far!

We had a small outage today where I discovered some indexes (or should that be indices?) on the database that were never used and maintaining them was a lot of extra work for the database. In theory it should speed things up although I don't imagine it'll really be all that noticeable to end users, but perhaps it'll stop the disk thrashing and warming the server room up a little...

We're enjoying some rare snow coverage and looking forward to the New Year.
4 Comments
  • From:
    Waterspriteflying (Legacy)
    On:
    Wed Dec 28 2005
    You know what's amazing to me? You understand all this! I just sit here reading, and nodding my head wisely, and hoping some of your knowledge and expertise will sort of rub off on me.

    Thanks again for you work!

    Hugs,
    Ani

    PS: Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, a Kwality Kwansa, a Satisfying Saturnalia, and a Yowza of a New Year!
  • From:
    Alifelessordinary (Legacy)
    On:
    Wed Dec 28 2005
    did you get my suggestion on MSN yesterday stevie poo?
  • From:
    Causingchaos (Legacy)
    On:
    Thu Dec 29 2005
    It's been 6 years for real? I was just guessing around when I figured I started here a little over 5 years ago. But wow.

    Have fun with your index issue. I didn't really notice any slowness.
  • From:
    Causingchaos (Legacy)
    On:
    Thu Dec 29 2005
    I was in my old diary here that's private now but it should go back to like 2000 but it doesn't. It goes back to 02 and I quit writing there in 03 so I don't know if that's anything to do with your adjusting that whole diary thing or not.