Tuesday, January 23, 2007

Brief problem last night.

Apparently we had a brief downtime last night due to the mysql database crashing, and the tech support people removing the username we connected to thinking it was causing the problem -- ironically had they of checked the database they would've realized that the problem was due to a corrupt table that our site uses for every page. Trying to write a few thousand records to a damaged table = mysql crashing. But they thought it was the id, and removed it temporally.

Hopefully this occurrence won't be happening again. Unfortunately, we were led to believe that mysql was capable of handling inserts into a mysql database with no real size limitations -- and this might not be the case.