Siebel Consultant Diary of a Siebel Consultant

Development environment down

Today, the most unbelievable thing happened. We are in a very critical stage of the project since we are trying to make a release without issues in order to go live next week. Therefor we are working very long days.

Today around 5 o’clock I wanted to checkout a project from the server when I received an error that the connection with the Oracle database could not be established. I thought I was maybe related to the fact that my tools had been open for several days so I exited from tools and restarted it. But the same error occurred.

Then I tried to connect via Toad to the dev database and got the same error. When asking my colleague about it, he told me he got the same problem. After complaining to somebody internal, she called to the DBA who told her that several UNIX machines were being patched and that he was only informed about this 5 minutes before. He had no idea how long this would take.

So we spent there 3 more hours working on projects that were already checked out and did some investigation for the development work for tomorrow. When I left the building at 8h30, the database was still down. I sincerely hope that everything will be up and running because otherwise we will have a very big problem.