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A database update that went wrong. I'm going to write a Tip-from-the-the-Trenches about it, but essentially an update that should have been a 5 min update, that hit a snag at the worst possible time and escalated into an hour long update that, of course, then failed.
It's purely a database issue, and no data has been lost. It just locked everything up and forced us to shut down the site in order to give it a fighting chance to recover gracefully. Which it didn't.
And of course it all worked flawlessly on our (deliberately) underpowered test rig.
In any case, the final update is still limping along in the background so things may remain slow for the next couple of hours.
What a day. Sorry for the hassle.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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That's the kind of stress that can cause your hair to fall out.
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Clearly I've had a few days too many like that 
cheers
Chris Maunder
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This may be the longest code project down I ever got it. Nice to see its back again.
Wonde Tadesse
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phew - didn't think I could drink any more coffee
nice work CP Team//hamsters 
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Fortunately, we're all devs. So, I'm sure all of us are thinking "been there, done that." It's always during a demo too. Why code Gods why!!
Jeremy Falcon
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CeBIT 2010. Humanoid robot project, with a test-walk as demonstration. It broke the day before departing but the machanical and electronic hamsters worked inside the van to fix it, and they did. It worked flawlessly for at least 20 demonstration, then the TV was approaching and... Instead of moving forward it kneeled down and fell.
Yeah, been there done that.
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Back in another life (20 years ago) when I was the head of IT at my company I used to describe my job as "98 percent boredom, 2% sheer terror."
Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. ~ George Washington
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And I missed it... Typical!!
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Chris Maunder wrote: And of course it all worked flawlessly on our (deliberately) underpowered test rig.
It only does that to lull you into a false sense of security.
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Chris Maunder wrote: A database update that went wrong
Sounds like you need a DBA
Common sense is admitting there is cause and effect and that you can exert some control over what you understand.
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Next you're going to start going on and on about "process" and "best practices" and "backups" and "not drinking on the job" and other such nonsense.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Hmm, "Quote selected text" doesn't work on the ipad.
Anyway, is drinking on the job a cause or an effect?
Wrong is evil and must be defeated. - Jeff Ello
(√-sh*t) 2
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Jörgen Andersson wrote: Anyway, is drinking on the job a cause or an effect?
If the world was perfect they would be synonyms  ![Beer | [beer]](https://www.codeproject.com/script/Forums/Images/beer.gif)
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Few hours ago, I was about to throw my iPad Mini, for not loading my Code Project.
Then I opened some other website, which worked. 
I missed Code Project. Hope everything is fine now.
I can also see the Google Helpouts option at right side of screen. Nice work Chris. 
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Your sense of transparency (the word these days) is refreshing. I am glad your site is still rocking the Casbah.
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Because I need to hear Carl Sagan on a Monday morning. Great video for the APOD crowd: Wanderers[^].
TTFN - Kent
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Not to start a flame war, I am simply relating my recent personal experience...
So, over the last couple of years, I've forayed into Ruby, PHP, very recently Java, and this coming from a background of C, C++, Pascal, Fortran, even some COBOL, and of course assembly language and some things I don't or don't want to remember (BASIC, LISP and Forth come to mind.)
In terms of "modern" programming languages, and especially after my recent foray in Java (granted, version 7, so I'm not able to take advantage of lambdas) I have come to the conclusion that, frankly, C# is the most elegant and well crafted language I've ever worked with. Yeah, I remember the C# 1.0 days when I was cursing the lack of templates/generics and the idiocy of single inheritance, but no more.
I find that code that I write in C# can be elegant, well crafted, expressive, and just a pleasure to write. I don't have that experience with other languages, except perhaps for F#, once I get into the rhythm of FP.
Marc
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I think the reason is that C# team put the ego aside - they do not care how many times John Doe says: 'It was copied from ...', what matter if it is a useful language feature or not...So C# - even being a new-age language - has all the 'wisdom' all the old languages got ever...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Even though I'm always a C/C++ guy at heart for the desktop and a PHP/JavaScript guy for the web, I happen to agree with this. As a language, without the extra garbage added on by some frameworks like EF, C# really is a nice language. My biggest beef with it is no support for multiple inheritance, but every environment has a couple of "would be nice" things.
It's the simple stuff though. Like partial class support. If you're in an IDE that sucks, and thus makes code navigation a b*tch, it's nice to have compiler support to be able to make files more manageable. Things like that. Sure, I can get around it, but it's nice to have.
And needless to say, I was tickled pink when C++ 11 adopted some ideas from newer languages like C#.
Jeremy Falcon
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I agree- and even more so when I returnto something I wrote > 1 year ago in C# I can still work out what the code does and why, and am back up and running pretty quickly.
I do sometimes wish great swathes of it were marked as depreciated though - people who don't use typed (generic) lists and pass DataSets around between methods need nudging towards a better path...including me.
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Sorry, DataSets and DataTables need to go - they are the spawn of Beelzebub himself.
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