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February 17, 2014

mTail - Windows Real time Log Monitoring Tool, Log Searching - Free Tools

This post is for mTail - Log monitoring tool on windows. I have used it it is very good. The benefits are
  • Monitor multiple Servers with multiple instances of this tool concurrently
  • Simple and easy to use
  • Start / Stop option to stop in case you have viewed error
Free tools for File Search / Exception Checking in logs

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February 09, 2014

Interesting Bug

Sharing one Unique Interesting bug identified during testing

Case #1 - Property_Id values mismatch was the primary issue. Two tables were defined in two databases. The scenario is Property_Id on Database A is based on master tables defined , example Master A. Issue was## mapping of MasterA was used in DatabaseB instead of MasterB. It was difficult to identify as Property_Id values were always overlapping for a smaller set of input data

Database A
MasterA
Property_Id Value
1    A
2    B
3    C
.......
10    D

TableA
Property_Id  Local_Id (Identity Column) Value
1 1
2 2
3 3
1 4
2 5
2 6


Database B
MasterB
Property_Id Value
10    A
20    B
30    C

TableB (Expected)
Property_Id          Local_Id (Identity Column) Value
10 1
20 2
30 3
10 4
20 5
20 6

TableB (Actual)
Property_Id           Local_Id (Identity Column) Value
1 1
2 2
3 3
10 4
2 5
2 6

The bug was not easily identified as Property values in MasterA and MasterB overlapped.  The values were matching in most cases for a smaller dataset.


Happy Learning!!!