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A Disasterous Upgrade - and a Warning about Nomad.

What a disastrous week we have had! Last weekend, we upgraded one of our most critical systems on the Domino server. The system in question is primarily transaction based and as a result records are being added and deleted constantly. The upgrade went well and all our post-implementation and testing was great. We all went home on Saturday feeling much relieved that the upgrade had gone as planned. On Monday, the first day in which the system was going to be used by our clients, we received a phone call to say that they were able to create a record with the same primary key as another record in the system. We commenced an investigation to see what the extent of the problem was, not expecting a great deal of trouble after all of the testing we have done. We were surprised. There were quite a few duplicate records, many of which were very similar but not exactly the same. The dates on these records varied considerably making it even harder to identify a pattern. In desperation, we r