18 July
Block 4.5 was finally relesaed to Production. This included a new PBA, Portals, and JETI. We started the deployment at 6 p.m. on Friday, July 14 and we did not finish it completely until 7 p.m. on Saturday, July 15. That is a 25 hour deployment. My goodness! There were a number of isseus, but the biggest ideas centered around the fact that we did not deploy a new baseline database and BDS would not update all the database stored procedures, look-up tables, and functions without the database baselines being deployed. We finally had Donny use ORCA to pull out the Database Update scripts from the MSI file and this allowed him to run the UpdateScripts locally on the Production servers.