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 (which makes me carry two), b...
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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 since I am not going to Denver...
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 will allow us to back out of ...
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 situation. Finding this out is a matte...
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 database design and careful im...