Stuff that s*cks

[Joshua Randall]

For reasons that are beyond my comprehension, I am tasked with moving a bunch of objects from one database to a different database. Each of these objects has several gigantic attachments affiliated with it. The attachments cannot be copied over directly; they must be detached to my hard drive and then re-attached in the new database.

This takes a Very. Long. Time.

I have be watching the freakin' lightning bolt at the bottom-left corner of Lotus Notes for LITERALLY 25 minutes now, as it tries to attach a several hundred meg file.

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!

At least it's not slowing down my web-surfing.

:ROLLEYES:, dammit! :ROLL-FREAKIN'EYES:!

 

[omrob]

Migration

For reasons that are beyond my comprehension, I am tasked with moving a bunch of objects from one database to a different database. Each of these objects has several gigantic attachments affiliated with it. The attachments cannot be copied over directly; they must be detached to my hard drive and then re-attached in the new database.

OH BOY!

and now MIGRATE!

One of our Solaris servers crashed the other day. Our sysadmin had to spend like 120 minutes hitting the y key to repair file fragments. It was not fun.

I felt pretty bad for him.

 

[Mercule]

Hey, Joshua, I spent the last 6 or so years programming Lotus Notes. A fair amount of that time involved working with attachments and other OLE-associated goodness. I'm currently working with SQL Server and VB.NET. If you give me a better description of what you're doing, there's a very real chance I'd be able to whip up a little applet to make your life easier.

Of course, it all depends on how many times you need to do this. There is a point of diminishing returns.

 

[diaglo]

lured me in hook, line, and sinker with the thread title.

i thought you were posting something about d02.

 

[Joshua Randall]

Heh, thanks for the offers of help. This is one of those projects where the limited number of objects to be moved makes it pointless to make an applet. No, I just get to suffer for a few days. Ah well. I can legitimately say that no, I can't do anything else in Lotus Notes right now, so I *have* to post on EN World.