System info:
Windows 2k3 server
ARS 6.3 patch 22
MS-SQL 2005 9.0

Yipes!  Several users, including myself, are receiving the following error
while attempting to perform any sort of action in Remedy:

ARERR [552] Failure during SQL operation to the database : Invalid column
name 'authString'. (SQL Server 207)

The "authString" sounds like a column in the dbo.user_cache table.  When I
check, I don't see that column, which would certainly explain the error.
However, I now have TWO columns called "shortAuthString" and
"longAuthString".  My question is "why?"

I searched the archives for ARERR 552 and it seems that the database would
make such a change during an upgrade to 7.0.  I can assure you that I've
made no such attempt, in fact I've been away from the system most of the
morning (ha, that'll show me!).

I see nothing relevant in the arerror or aruser.log files (and since I'm
getting the error, I can't turn the logs on or off via the admin tool).  The
SQL log file only shows that a transaction log was successfully backed up -
no errors or anything that suggests "dropped column, inserted 2 columns."
Same with the Windows event viewer.  The one thing I notice is that around
the last transaction log backup ballooned to 800MB, normally it sits around
a few MB depending on the level of activity.

Anyone seen this?  Any ideas?  Mine right now is restore to the transaction
log before the 800MB one, which I assume to be good. And of course this is
without knowing what happened.

Thanks in advance for any insight.

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