SQL Anywhere Forum Updates

This page lists all of the software changes and updates made to SQL Anywhere forum. New additions will be made at the top of this page.

March 6-10, 2022 - Scheduled/unscheduled outage

The forum was down for one day when it was moved to a new machine. However logging into the forum was broken for several days afterwards.

December 5-9, 2021 - Unscheduled outage

The forum was down for four days due to unknown hardware problems.

March 24, 2021 - Unscheduled outage

The forum was down for several hours starting around 4:50am EDT due to a disk filling up.

December 1, 2020 - Unscheduled outage

The forum was down for a few seconds around 4:15pm EST to update the HTTPS certificate.

October 25-26, 2020 - Unscheduled outage

The forum was down from about 7:00pm EDT on Oct 25 until 7:20am on Oct 26 because of a hardware problem.

Sept 25-27, 2020 - Scheduled outage

The forum was down from sometime on Saturday until 11:20pm EDT Sunday night for scheduled maintenance.

June 19-20, 2020 - Unscheduled outage

The forum was down from sometime in the early morning (EDT) of June 19 until 8:30am June 20 due to a disk filling up. I am putting processes in place to warn administrators when disks get close to full.

May 17-19, 2019 - Scheduled/unscheduled outage

The forum was down from approximately 10:30pm EDT on Friday May 17 until about 4:15pm EDT on Sunday May 19 due to some scheduled maintenance. The forum should have been unavailable for an hour or two but the machine did not restart correctly after the maintenance. The problem was not corrected until Sunday afternoon.

June 21, 2018 - Unscheduled outage

The forum was down from approximately 1:00am until about 11:15am EDT due to a disk filling up.

February 10, 2018 - Scheduled outage

The forum was down from 9:00am EST until about 10:30am for server maintenance.

August 18-20, 2017 - Scheduled outage

The forum was down from about 6:30pm EDT on August 18 until 9:10am on August 22 for server maintenance.

May 10-11, 2016 - Unscheduled outage

The forum was down from about 11:00am EDT on May 10 until 12:30pm on May 11 because of a hardware problem.

May 8-9, 2016 - Unscheduled outage

The forum was down from about 8:00am EDT on May 8 until 12:00pm on May 9 because of a hardware problem.

August 1, 2015 - Scheduled outage

The forum was down from 9:00am to 9:45am EDT to upgrade the database server to SQL Anywhere 17.

April 27-28, 2015 - Unscheduled outage

The forum was down from approximately 8:30pm EDT on April 27 until about 9:45pm on April 28 due to problems with the VM hosting infrastructure.

April 14, 2015 - Scheduled outage

The forum was down intermittently from 8:45pm EDT until 10:00pm EDT to get the Google+ authentication provider working. This time it was successful.

April 13, 2015 - Scheduled outage

The forum was down intermittently from 7:00pm EDT until 10:00pm EDT in an unsuccessful attempt to configure the Google+ authentication provider.

March 28th, 2015 - Scheduled outage

The forum was down from 9:00am EDT until about 2:00pm to install new OSQA software and to enable the new Google+ authentication provider. However after the upgrade, the Google+ provider is still not working. This is being investigated.

January 22, 2015 - Unscheduled outage

The forum was down at 4:10pm EST for a few seconds to install a fix for converting answers to questions.

November 1-3, 2014 - Unscheduled outage

The forum was down from about 11:30am EST on Nov 1 until about 3:00pm on Nov 3 because of a disk failure on the machine.

July 7, 2014 - Unscheduled outage

The forum was down at 1:50pm EDT for a few seconds to install a fix for full-text searching.

March 29, 2014 - Scheduled outage

The forum was down from 10:00am EDT until 11:30am EDT as it was migrated from the sybase.com domain to sap.com.