Browsing the Bookshelves

Gremlins seem to have hit our systems this morning - and when all one's stock of over 10,000 books is inventoried electronicly, that's a real problem.  In short, because our network is not performing properly, I can't put my hands on a single specific book. 

The location of each and every book is stored in a database so that we can quickly and easily locate a book whenever anyone places an order or asks a question about a particular books.  On Saturday, we spent several hours building shelves and moving some 400 or 500 hundred books into our new remote storage. The new location for each book was religiously entered into the database as we went along.  Although the new locations are visible when we browse the database, they do not show up when the database is queried. It's mad, and very, very bad. Here's hoping that the whole nation doesn't decide to buy books from today, because we havn't got a hope in hell of finding them until the problems are sorted out.  Oh, the joys of bookselling!  Why didn't I have a calling to be a gardener - at least one's not likely to loose a garden!