Cleaning the Alien
That blue thing that I am running PowerPoint on during my talks is an Alienware Area51-m laptop. Heavy like a block of lead, battery life of about 2 hrs...
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Going “Home”
Wow. It's been a long time. 2 years again, already? Mr. Forte lets me stay at his house and invited me to his Christmas party in New York and ...
Dealing with Deadlocks and Other Unfortunate Events on the Application Level: Part 3
See Part 2 Now that we have a way to detect deadlocks and similar error conditions we might encounter during a transaction, we need to find a mechanism that...
Dealing with Deadlocks and Other Unfortunate Events on the Application Level: Part 2
See Part 1 Before we can do anything about deadlocks or deal with similar troubles, we first need to be able to tell that we indeed have a deadlock situatio...
Dealing with Deadlocks and Other Unfortunate Events on the Application Level: Part 1
Deadlocks and other locking conflicts that cause transactional database operations to fail are things that puzzle many application developers. Sure, proper ...