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v 3.6.4 release notes - 6/9/2006 2:34:09 PM

Eric

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This was a subtle little release that I posted last night. It focuses on a few under the covers things:

Some improvements to the administrative tools that myself, Andrew Hall and Jeff Fisher use to scrub the wine database. (The various bulk updater things I emailed you guys about the other day.)
A new "Bottles per year" choice in the drinkability index as discussed here.
Many under-the-covers changes to increase robustness of certain edits, especially as they relate to merged or deleted wines. Suffice it so say that in some very rare occasions (about 1 in 10,000), it was possible to have an edit which 'lost' a tasting note or a bottle. That should not happen any more, as there is a fair amount of robustification I have done to prevent this ever happening also greatly decrease the likelihood it could happen (which stems from either us merging a wine right as you are adding data or a user submitting an incomplete form before a page is done loading.)
And most importantly, I have finally tracked down and greatly improved the way that wine searches deal with wine names or wineries that have single characters in them. This used to work fine, but at the end of January I shifted these searches to use a dramatically faster and more scalable "full text search" technology. Alas, full text search generally excludes single letters from its indexes. I had wrestled with this about 5 times over the past 4 months to try and work around this, but the technology kept confounding me and/or not doing what it is supposed to do, at least as documented by Microsoft. Well, I found a way around it which I deployed last night. So now you can easily find wines from wineries such "J Vineyards & Winery" (a.k.a. "J Wine"), "K Vintners" or "T-VineB", Rioja from "C.V.N.E.", Cabernet from the "S.L.V." vineyard, or the fabulous "Y" dry, white Bordeaux from the same people who bring you Y'Quem. The only step backward is that a search on "J J Prum or J. J. Prum" will now not find wines from "Joh. Jos. Prum". I think that people will naturally just search on Prum, Christoffel etc and find the wine/producer they are hunting. In contrast, finding all of the other aforementioned wines was nearly impossible due to the technology quirk.