A blog post by Simon Cooper sent up a reminder of a subject that has been at the forefront of my mind for the last couple weeks and is a follow up to my blog post The Superman Conundrum. I’d had lunch with a previous coworker from years ago about less than stellar management behavior directed towards him as an employee and also spoke last week to another previous co-worker about challenges in her current workplace. I’m pretty content with how I am treated at my company. Even though the company does not comprise of techies, they at least attempt to…
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This is when I know I’ve been doing too much database work in one day. I awoke from a dream, quite early in the morning and was replaying it in my head. The scenario went like this: Scene: City streets, obviously a murder scene with yellow tape drawn and bystanders watching off to the sides as the main characters, two seasoned detectives are discussing the decision to enter the crime scene. Officer #1: “Are we sure we covered our bases? Is there anyway the criminal could have escaped the scene or we could have compromised the evidence when we entered…
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I’ve always had a *thing* for trace files. They serve me well- I like them and they seem to really like me. I have a special affinity for deadlock trace files and someone needs to remind me to pester Cary Millsap about a tool to decipher them so I have even more data to go through…:) Even without any tools, I can easily pull out what is important and work from this data to run queries and reports to drill down to find work-arounds when changes to logic or design are not an option. Deadlocks, although quite unpleasant, I find…