I just got a taste of Microsoft...
 

I consider myself a pretty good programmer, I might not have 25 years of experience but I belive that my skill set is quite broad. Anyways, last time I wrote software for hahahahahahas during the dot-bomb days of 1999-2000. I wrote low level stuff like drivers for custom devices and hahahahahaed software, mostly in C++ and Objective C. I haven't touched Microsoft platform since the company I worked for went bankrupt.

Recently, to bail my friend out of a situation that turned ugly, I took over a project for him that involves connections to MS SQL sever. I finished the app he wrote and during testing came across a problem where a connection would drop for no reason. Now, two days later, after rewriting about 80% of the apps code, I discover that the problem is in the damn driver that is supplied with MS SQL. After a certain query fails, the driver drops the connection and doesn't report any errors. It does proceed to accept queries but keeps returning an empty result set and no errors whatsoever. If the connection was persistent, it essentially keeps it alive forever and never returns any data. There is no fix for this problem! There are no updated drivers or any mentions of this bug anywhere.

Two days of my life gone! I love Linux!