The deployment list orders `DeployedAt DESC, Id DESC` and joins `Instance` to
make SiteId filterable, but the only DeployedAt index was single-column and
ascending, so the server sorted the filtered set on every page request.
Adds `IX_DeploymentRecords_DeployedAt_Id (DeployedAt DESC, Id DESC)` — the exact
sort key, both columns descending, so a forward scan feeds the paged Skip/Take
directly. Id is in the key as the deterministic tie-break: a bulk site deploy
stamps many rows in the same DeployedAt instant, and without it a row can repeat
or vanish across page boundaries. Three reads share the key
(QueryDeploymentListPageAsync, QueryDeploymentSummariesAsync, and the single-row
GetCurrentDeploymentStatusAsync).
DROPS the old `IX_DeploymentRecords_DeployedAt` rather than keeping both. It is
strictly redundant, not merely overlapping: DeployedAt leads both, so every
predicate it served the composite serves too (direction does not affect
seekability — SQL Server scans either way), and the leaf rows are the same width,
because Id is the clustered PK and was therefore already in the old nonclustered
index's leaf as the row locator. All that changes is Id becoming a declared,
ordered key column. Keeping it would maintain a second index on every deployment
insert and status transition for no read benefit.
Honest caveat: because the clustering key is implicitly ordered within a
nonclustered index, the optimizer may already have been able to serve this
ordering by scanning the old index backward. The explicit composite makes it
deterministic and self-documenting rather than dependent on that inference, and
costs nothing to declare.
Migration 20260815165452_AddDeploymentRecordListSortIndex (scaffolded with a real
build, non-empty, snapshot updated) plus the hand-written production script under
docs/plans/sql/ following the AddAuditLogAndNotificationCoveringIndexes
precedent. SystemArtifactDeploymentRecords has its own separate DeployedAt index
and is deliberately untouched.
The per-IP unlock throttle's counters were a process-local ConcurrentDictionary
on each central node, so the effective fleet cap was N x
MaxUnlockAttemptsPerIpPerHour per client (failing over to the other node handed
the client a fresh budget) and a node restart cleared the window outright.
The window now lives in the central MS SQL BundleUnlockAttempt table — the HA
store both central nodes already share, so no new infrastructure, no new port,
no consensus protocol:
- Commons: BundleUnlockAttempt entity + IBundleUnlockAttemptRepository.
- ConfigurationDatabase: entity config (one index,
IX_BundleUnlockAttempt_Client_Attempted, serving both the windowed count and
the prune), repository (AsNoTracking count, ExecuteDeleteAsync prune),
DbSet, DI registration, migration AddBundleUnlockAttemptTable + the
hand-written idempotent production script under docs/plans/sql/.
- Transport: IBundleUnlockAttemptWindow seam + SqlBundleUnlockAttemptWindow
(singleton; resolves the scoped repository from its own scope per call, like
the central purge singletons). BundleUnlockRateLimiter keeps the policy and
gains TryRegisterAttemptAsync; BundleImporter.LoadAsync calls it.
Behaviour preserved from row 44: locked bundles spend no hourly budget (the
lockout check still runs first), throttle denials burn no per-bundle strike and
are NOT recorded so they cannot roll the window forward, unattributable clients
share the stricter <unattributed> bucket, and the budget counts attempts rather
than failures. Config keys and their semantics are unchanged, so the rig's 500
override stays valid.
Three deliberate trades, documented in both Transport docs:
- FAILS OPEN. A store error logs a Warning naming the client and cap, and
permits the attempt. This is a best-effort rate cap over an already
authenticated, Administrator-gated surface — the availability of legitimate
imports outranks the cap, and a DB blip must not make the import wizard
unusable. Falling back to the process-local window was considered and
rejected: it would still block a legitimate operator's 11th import.
- Approximate. Count-then-insert is not atomic across nodes, so simultaneous
attempts can overshoot by the number in flight — bounded, self-correcting
within the window, and not worth provider-specific raw SQL.
- Pruned opportunistically on the unlock path (CAS-claimed at most every 15
min per process, bounded to 1000 rows, retaining 2x the window, best-effort
try/catch) rather than by a new background service — Transport owns no
central scheduler. Same shape as DeploymentService's terminal-record sweep.
Tests: Transport.IntegrationTests 116 passed (+10 — two limiter instances over
one store enforcing a single combined window, restart durability, denials
burning no budget, sliding release, bucket isolation, store-failure fail-open,
caller-cancellation not swallowed, no-shared-window fallback, prune and its
negative control); ConfigurationDatabase 395 passed (+5).
Six adversarial-review findings in the central SQL/ingest layer.
F1 (AuditLogRepository.InsertChunkAsync) — the set-based ingest declared each
string parameter at its COLUMN width (Actor/Target 256, Action 64, Outcome 16,
Category 32, SourceNode 64), so SqlClient truncated an over-long value at bind
time and committed the mutilated row — silent, in an append-only store, with no
PayloadTruncated flag — while the per-row and reconciliation paths sent the same
value in full and let the server reject it with 2628. Bind at the value's own
length instead; explicit SqlDbType is kept (it fixes the VALUES constructor's
derived column types and datetime2 precision). Design: reject everywhere,
truncate nowhere — matching today's per-row behaviour.
F2 (SiteCallAuditRepository.UpsertAsync) — the single-statement upsert ran the
monotonic UPDATE first and INSERTed only if nothing matched. Two writers racing
the first packet of one TrackedOperationId (the cached dual-write and the
reconciliation pull carry DIFFERENT lifecycle states) both matched nothing, and
the loser then skipped its INSERT or swallowed a 2627 — dropping its
Status/RetryCount/HttpStatus/TerminalAtUtc. Legs swapped to
`IF NOT EXISTS … INSERT; UPDATE <monotonic>` — still one round trip, and the
loser's UPDATE now lands on the winner's row. The duplicate-key catch re-runs
the monotonic UPDATE for the same reason. Moved to raw SQL with explicitly-typed
parameters so the intricate rank predicate exists in exactly one place (an
untyped DateTime would bind as `datetime` and round the freshness tiebreaker).
F3 (docs/plans/sql/*.sql) — filtered-index DDL failed with error 1934 under the
documented `docker exec … sqlcmd` path, which defaults QUOTED_IDENTIFIER OFF;
once IX_Notifications_Delivered exists, QI-OFF DML on Notifications fails too.
All four scripts now open with `SET QUOTED_IDENTIFIER ON; SET ANSI_NULLS ON; GO`
(own batch, so it is in force when the next batch parses), and the migration
convention in Component-ConfigurationDatabase.md documents `sqlcmd -I`. Verified
live: the pre-fix script fails 1934 without -I, the fixed one applies.
F4 (SiteCallAuditActor) — the off-mailbox reconciliation/purge passes reuse the
injected repository, so tests drove one DbContext from the pass and a mailbox
handler concurrently. Serialized at the CALL via a private SerializedRepository
wrapper applied only by the test constructors, rather than running the pass
on-mailbox: production keeps its PipeTo shape untouched, and the existing
"a blocked drain does not stall ingest/query/KPI" regression tests stay
meaningful (they would have been invalidated by suspending the mailbox).
F5 (AuditLogIngestActor) — when the batch failed because the 20 s IngestBudget
expired, the per-row fallback reused the same expired token: N instant failures,
N counter bumps, zero accepted. The fallback now gets a fresh 5 s budget (inside
the 30 s outer Ask), and a blown budget bumps the failure counter ONCE for the
batch instead of once per row.
F6 (NotificationOutboxRepository.UpdateAsync) — ExecuteUpdate's row count was
discarded, so an operator Retry/Discard of a notification the retention purge had
already deleted reported success (the pre-ExecuteUpdate code threw
DbUpdateConcurrencyException). UpdateAsync now returns whether a row matched; the
operator one-shots answer "notification not found" and emit no audit row for the
action that did not happen, while the dispatcher logs a warning (its delivery
already happened; nothing to retry). GetByIdAsync switched to AsNoTracking since
the write is out-of-band.
Tests: 5 new SQL-backed regressions (over-long Target rejected on both paths +
boundary round-trip; concurrent first-write and already-created-by-another-writer
upserts; vanished-row UpdateAsync), a token-identity pin on the ingest fallback,
a repository-concurrency detector for the SiteCallAudit passes, and vanished-row
operator-path tests. The F1/F2/F4 regressions were each confirmed failing against
the pre-fix code. Suites: ConfigurationDatabase 369, AuditLog 378, SiteCallAudit
66, NotificationOutbox 152 — all green, solution builds with 0 warnings.
Joseph Doherty