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Passport Database Outage Leaves Thousands Stranded

Posted by Unknown on from the maintenance-considered-harmful dept.

linuxwrangler (582055) writes Job interviews missed, work and wedding plans disrupted, children unable to fly home with their adoptive parents. All this disruption is due to a outage involving the passport and visa processing database at the U.S. State Department. The problems have been ongoing since July 19 and the best estimate for repair is "soon." The system "crashed shortly after maintenance."

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  1. The solution by Loopy · · Score: 4, Funny

    Sic the healthcare.gov guys on it. I'm sure it'll be right as rain in no time.

  2. Ask the NSA by Daemonik · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'm sure they have full copies of all the data already.

  3. Re:Replication != Backup by sumdumass · · Score: 4, Funny

    http://xkcd.com/327/

    I wonder if little bobby tables applied for a passport while this was going on?

  4. Here's the problem... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    I think I found the problem, from the Department of State's own website:

    "The Department of State is working with Oracle and Microsoft to implement system changes aimed at optimizing performance and addressing ongoing performance issues."

    They're running Oracle on Windows.

    1. Re:Here's the problem... by AJWM · · Score: 4, Funny

      Or worse, they're running SQLServer on Sun boxes...

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      -- Alastair
  5. Re:Change management fail by Areyoukiddingme · · Score: 4, Funny

    Well there's your problem! God has no part in an IT management plan.

    Yeah, the other guy has it well in hand.

  6. Re:Change management fail by roc97007 · · Score: 3, Funny

    I sometimes think that if I accidentally entered a church with an IT management plan in a back pocket, my pants would burst into flames.

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    Oliver's law of assumed responsibility: If you're seen fixing it, you will be blamed for breaking it.