Different result sets on live and staging envirionment

From: Marc Hoeijmans (mhoeijma_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 02/27/04 

Date: 27 Feb 2004 01:50:05 -0800

Hello I have an MS Indexserver challenge concerning the return of a
different result set on our staging environment (Win
2000/IIS5.0/IndexServer3.0) and live environment (Win
NT/IIS4.0/IndexServer2.0). Our staging environment displays the right
result set when I query on custom META-tags.

I have build a news archive page, where you can quick search (by
selecting: All news articles or by selecting a specific period, e.g.
last week, last month, etc.). You can also use an advanced search,
where you can select a specific news category (sport, information,
communication, etc.) and a month and year.

Problem: When I use the quick search, I get on staging: 32 articles
(published in February 2004) displayed in the result set and on the
live environment just 5 articles (published in February 2004). When I
use on both environments the advanced search and select just February
as Month. The staging environment displays 34 articles (this is right
because two articles are published in 2003 and the rest in 2004), the
live environment displays more articles (34) than with the quick
search. This is strange, because the quick search should display much
more items than just 5. The result set is descending ordered by
ArticleSortDate, the latest article are displayed on top (feb 2004)
and the oldest article (feb 2003) as latest item in the result set.

Here is the output of some debug code.

Debug code quick seach
<!-- catalog is kluintra -->
<!-- query dialect is 1 -->
<!-- query locale is 1043 -->
<!-- query is @IsArticle =yes -->
<!-- maxrecords is 100 -->
<!-- columns is IsArticle, ArticleSortDate, ArticleIntro,
ContentTitle, vPath, ArticleCategorie, ArticleMonth, ArticleYear -->
<!-- sortby is ArticleSortDate [d] -->
<!-- scope is /portaal/actueel/nieuws -->

Debug code advanced search
<!-- catalog is kluintra -->
<!-- query locale is 1043 -->
<!-- query is @IsArticle =yes -->
<!-- maxrecords is 100 -->
<!-- columns is IsArticle, ArticleSortDate, ArticleIntro,
ContentTitle, vPath, ArticleCategorie, ArticleMonth, ArticleYear -->
<!-- sortby is ArticleSortDate [d] -->
<!-- scope is /portaal/actueel/nieuws -->

And here is an example of the META-tags used in the news articles.
<META name='description' content='Koninklijke Luchtmacht'>
<META name='IsArticle' content='yes'>
<META name='DocumentType' content='Nieuwsbericht'>
<META name='ContentTitle' content='F-16: 30 jaar in de lucht en 25
jaar bij de KLu'>
<META name='DisplayInDezeRubriek' content='yes'>
<META name='ArticleIntro' content='Eén van de onderwerpen die aandacht
krijgen bij de Open Dagen op 18 en 19 juni op de vliegbasis Volkel
vormt het 25-jarig jubileum van de F-16 bij de Koninklijke Luchtmacht.
Op 7 juni 1979 landde de J-259 op de vliegbasis Leeuwarden. Wat maar
weinig mensen weten is dat de ‘officiële' eerste vlucht van de F-16 in
februari 1974 – dus dertig jaar geleden – plaatsvond en dat er
inmiddels 4.129 F-16's vliegen in liefst 24 landen. Daarmee is de
Fighting Falcon het meest succesvolle vliegtuig van de laatste
decennia.'>
<META name='ArticleSortDate' content='2004/02/23'>
<META name='ArticleMonth' content='2'>
<META name='ArticleYear' content='2004'>
<META name='ArticleCategorie' content='Operationeel'>
<META name='NaamAuteur' content='Sectie Luchtmachtcommunicatie'>
<META name='EmailAuteur' content='LUCOinfo@mindef.nl'>

Who has any idea of what possible could went wrong. Tips, tricks and
debug directions are more than welcome. Thanks in advance.

P.s. we are absolutely sure that on both environment use the some code
(copied from staging to live) and have the same set of documents
published (also copied from staging to live). The only difference is
that both environments have there own catalog and that they use a
different operating-system.

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