The Devil Is In The Details

Software development is not for the faint of heart.

• The SQL DELIMITER  statement is particular to the mysql client tool, so you can’t use a standard dump file to bootstrap initialize a new database instance using mysqld –bootstrap. Eight hours later I figured out a workaround, namely exporting stored procedures directly from the mysql.proc  table.
• A single stray character can entirely break a critical piece of system functionality; finding and removing it required a late night from multiple team members.

And that was just yesterday.