Problem making a comment

December 12, 2005 10:26 AM

My comments broken [more inside]
posted by Eideteker to Bugs at 10:26 AM (11 comments total)

The web site you are accessing has experienced an unexpected error.
Please contact the website administrator.

The following information is meant for the website developer for debugging purposes.
Error Occurred While Processing Request
Error Executing Database Query.
[Macromedia][SQLServer JDBC Driver][SQLServer]Cannot sort a row of size 8098, which is greater than the allowable maximum of 8094.

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Date/Time 12-Dec-05 10:23 AM

Well, anyhow, I've gotten this error consistently and not intermittently, so I thought I'd let you know.
posted by Eideteker at 10:27 AM on December 12, 2005

NM it's totally working again, kthxbye!
posted by Eideteker at 10:35 AM on December 12, 2005

damnit, eideteker, you broke teh internets again.

(and what pathetic sucky db engine can't sort 8100 rows?! goes off to check db docs....)
posted by andrew cooke at 11:14 AM on December 12, 2005

Yeah, please try to remember to manually [MI] here. It's a pony that doesn't seem like it's coming to town. Although, it does lead to some humor when you don't have the inside text prepared and then post it immediately.
posted by mystyk at 11:15 AM on December 12, 2005

oh. i should learn to read
posted by andrew cooke at 11:27 AM on December 12, 2005

You really should. There are so many good books out there. The MetaChat Book Club is reading Cloud Atlas this month!
posted by Eideteker at 12:49 PM on December 12, 2005

This would never happen if the site ran on Microsoft Access.
posted by holloway at 1:08 PM on December 12, 2005

[I "more insided" the post]
posted by jessamyn at 2:34 PM on December 12, 2005

Last night a jessadmyn saved my life (that'll make more sense when I reread it tomorrow).
posted by Eideteker at 2:53 PM on December 12, 2005

This problem's back for me.
posted by cillit bang at 2:45 AM on December 14, 2005

dude, i read cloud atlas two months ago. get with the times.... (it's really rather good, incidentally).

is it possible to read "your threads"? i guess matt can do it to resolve problems like this; can the rest of us?
posted by andrew cooke at 10:27 AM on December 14, 2005