April 22, 2019 at 9:20 pm
Today's email newsletter features an article titled "Service Broker Part 2: Why Service Broker". If you click on that link, you'll be taken to, instead, a 2012 article by Tony Davis on the subject of "Data Compression Double Take". The link has the underlying address of...
https://qa.sqlservercentral.com/?post_type=ssc_article&p=7507
--Jeff Moden
April 22, 2019 at 9:44 pm
That is weird - when I click on mine, it goes to the correct article/link. There was something in the newsletter last week that took me to the Data Compression article but the links have been fine since then.
Sue
April 22, 2019 at 10:00 pm
Crazy. Didn't see this as it worked for me in multiple tests. The issue is the scheduler has to publish the content or it's hidden. Hidden content is a 404, but it ends up on the Tony Davis article. We're working on a couple fixes, but they're not deployed. The scheduler, no idea. Tagged that as a highest priority item.
Long story:Wordpress accounts for possible truncation of URLs, or slight changes. If it gets a missing URL, before kicking a 404, it does a "like" search for articles that might match. Then it returns one of those. That seems insane to me, but we discovered this in tracking down a few items across the last week.
In our case, because we have a lot of URL redirects, and some are not yet programmed in, we have some content that kicks out 0 rows, which causes WordPress to do a like search of sorts. I don't want to spend time tracking the technical details of what happens, but I've asked that we note the 404 and drop the user to the search page.
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