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Back in my first job we had a database which worked fine in testing, worked fine on the customer’s server… then started crashing a week later.

Turns out their MS SQL Server install was configured for MM-DD-YYYY output which only crashed when we reached the 13th of the month. Important lessons were learned that day!



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