06-XII-2016.

I was ready to go to the airport for their noon flight from Paris to see Go and hers, however their flight was delayed so they had only 90 minutes to switch planes. On CDG, with one flight from the US and the other into Serbia (therefore pushed 2km away to the far field), with their system of "walk 200m through the building then catch a bus to go around the building then walk another 200m up and down through the building to catch the bus to take you to the far field" that is plain impossible.

So I took to do some work (Suez and I are finalizing the hfea conversion, go-live should be on monday if we get the backport data on time).

The classical bullshit of m$ is that they change the format of backup with each version of SQL server. Right now I tried the backup of Byo in postgres - it dumped 10M of it in almost plain text format (last time I checked, MySql does exactly that, the backup is a script to create and then populate the database) in a mere second. But no, this is m$ and the backup of 12 has to be unreadable by a 11 server. It does work the other way around, but once it's in the new version, it can't be backported into an older one, unless you're willing for it to wait for hours to see if it would generate what MySql does in a minute - once I tried it didn't include everything, because, again, this is m$ and most of the defaults are set up intentionally wrongly, so I missed a few clicks. It goes full scale between a nudge and a shove, but it's always in the direction of „you need to buy the new version“.

Now with the MSDN (or whatver alphabet soup it was) subscription, Firriver had all the versions it wanted, it was more of a question how many should we install, do we have enough machines. The dev server in Manchester held a 2005, 2008 and now also a 2012 version, simultaneously. Which was a source of confusion at times, because different versions of client instalations (well, copies thereof for conversion; various demo or testing versions) hooked into different databases on different servers (most of them being quite similar, because they were copied from the same SFBC database from 2007, in various stages of copy - deriving the genealogy would be nearly impossible now), so often I had to chase the version on disks, to read the connection string there, to find out which server and which database to check, repeatedly, as these connections also changed).

For some purposes I even had a 2016 in a virtual machine on zmajček, because of two clinics (one in Poland, one in Norway).

In the evening, we both went to the airport. I've already said that I visit the place more often than going downtown here. Their flight was only 20 minutes late, but they also had to be the last out, to sign the protocol about the lost luggage. When they were out, it was almost midnight.

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Mentions: Byo (Byo), Firriver Fertility (Firriver), Gorana Sredljević (Go), HFEA, Majkrosoft (m$), SFBC, Suez Lima, zmajček, in serbian