Today at work I was wrestling with a database connection that was defying all my attempts to make it play nice. I needed to type in a command that I couldn’t pull off the top of my head, but I knew where on this blog to find it.
So quick like a bunny I typed in muddledramblings.com to find the answer, and I was greeted with a screen that said, in big bold letters:
Error establishing database connection.
Sigh.
Obviously it’s fixed now, or you wouldn’t be reading this, but dang.
I think the big problem is a lexical one. Whatever we replaced databases with would quickly end up being called a database :)
Not if we replaced them with flaming wreckage!
I thought that was Windows Registry?
I find if you remove all authentication requirements from your database calls that you get far, far more successful connections to your database.