We've spent the past month upgrading to DB2 vs 8. Version 8 of DB2 didn't talk to the DB2 vs 7 client, despite many assertions from IBM that "the client and database are one version foreword and back compatible." Oh -- you've gone to 64 bit vs 8 -- no, that won't work. Then we had to upgrade the client, but the client wasn't compatible with the version of the Websphere application server we were running. We needed to upgrade that.
Then there was a set of poorly installed patches to Solaris which filled up a root drive, bringing down our development system.
Last week Recommind delivered their database, but we were having a hard time keeping the full database up with version 8. I think we're finally beginning to start testing the Recommind engine plus our full database of books.
I have occasional bouts where i forget to breathe. I was looking for Hans Küng's Does God Exist?. (It came to mind because i am going to alter our disintegrating edition al la Tom Phillips.) "Kung god" -- amusing results, not what i'm looking for. "Hans Kung" -- look at all the works with Hans Küng as author, but can't find my title. "Does god exist" -- It seemed that we only had one work with the title "Does God Exist?" when there should have been -- and i go examine Eureka -- ten or eleven.
Ah-ah! I'm searching the test database, with only 5% of the books records. So, back to the full database. "kung god" -- this time, i get the note that there are 285 results, but none are displayed. "kung god exist" turns up
1.Existiert Gott, by Hans Kung
6 editions published between 1979 and 1991 in 2 languages.
Primary Subject: God
[score=1.0, rank count=88, order=5.47733681447821]
Well, yay.
But before i can think about the frustrating implication of non-English language uniform titles for American undergraduates, i have to search on my name, so my SQL expert can try to figure out why "kung god" never displays a result.
"judith" turns up many results about horses, particularly books i remember from my childhood, like Misty of Chincoteague. Since i grew up with horses, this seems oddly appropriate, but a little too close to mind-reading to be believed. I expect it's part of a caching problem we've seen all day.
The invisible results from "kung god" have to do with the CJK aggregator existing in our "work" data -- something that is used internal to RLG to facilitate CJK searching.
Meanwhile, another search on "judith" turns up the The Books of Common Prayer, Confessions of a saint, Cicero on the nature of gods, and "Kusumanjali, by Udayanacarya" in the first five results.
I could get a swelled head over this!
Posted by judielaine at September 2, 2003 06:40 PM | TrackBack