Hysteria in Troubleshooting

Sometimes a diffuse scripting error can make you envision all kinds of problems which could exist ... but don't. It is also a difficult matter to concentrate when people are milling up and down the halls making racket but your boss wants you to keep the door open for appearances.

Such is a similar pitfall into which I fell Friday through Sunday with a smidge on Monday. When I closed the door and "fine tooth combed" my scripts the issue became evident only after I had a look at the datasources and took stock of what was there and what was not.

The moral of the story is keep the distractions to a minimum and check the small stuff prior to becoming engulfed in some ocean of occult reasons for which a script is failing.

Not everything is a bloody massive failure. Sometimes a simple string of characters can make all the difference between "operational" and "failing".

I was failing and now I'm operational.