Has Evo Been a Victim of Microsoft's ODBC Deadlock Error?

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The discussion begins with a user expressing frustration over encountering a deadlock error in SQL Server, which interrupts their work. This leads to a humorous exchange about "potato cheese soup," which seems to be a lighthearted distraction from the technical issues. Participants share their own frustrations with technology, particularly outdated or poorly designed software, and the common experience of losing work due to system failures. Suggestions for improving workflow include setting autosave features and using memory sticks for backups. The conversation also touches on personal anecdotes, such as a stolen makeup bag and a friend's luxurious lifestyle, which adds a humorous and relatable element to the technical woes. Overall, the thread blends technical challenges with lighthearted banter and personal stories, highlighting the shared frustrations of working with unreliable technology.
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I spent the entire morning working on this quote. I hit the last entry and got THIS

Microsoft OLE DB Provider for ODBC Drivers error '80004005'

[Microsoft][ODBC SQL Server Driver][SQL Server]Transaction (Process ID 62) was deadlocked on lock resources with another process and has been chosen as the deadlock victim. Rerun the transaction.

AAAARRGGGHHHH

I've been killed by Microsoft. :cry:
 
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Potato cheese soup is here!

:!) :!) :!) :!) :!)
 
Potato cheese soup? what on Earth are you going on about?
 
Andy said:
Potato cheese soup? what on Earth are you going on about?
You obviously have not been keeping current with my life.

It's the only reason I work here.
 
Evo said:
Potato cheese soup is here!

:!) :!) :!) :!) :!)


YAY!
Damn SQL server. Good thing MS doesn't make potato cheese soup. If someone else was trying to eat the soup at the same time as you, it might dissappear from your spoon before it got to your lips.
 
I hope "Potato cheese soup is here!" sisn't the quote you worked on all morning. If so, maybe MS was trying to tell you something. :smile:
 
Math Is Hard said:
YAY!
Damn SQL server. Good thing MS doesn't make potato cheese soup. If someone else was trying to eat the soup at the same time as you, it might dissappear from your spoon before it got to your lips.
:smile: That would be bad.

I hate when a computer freezes up just as you hit save. Considering you work at a company that is supposed to be dealing with technology all day, you'd think they'd get their own technology a bit more up-to-date and functional. What sort of confidence does that inspire in a customer? "We'll sell you all these important, hi-tech, quality network components that your business is going to depend on, just as soon as we reboot our frozen computers." :rolleyes: (I don't know exactly if that's what your company sells, but you get the point.)
 
I can relate. My boss likes to say, the cobbler's children have no shoes. :smile:
 
Evo said:
You obviously have not been keeping current with my life.

It's the only reason I work here.

I think this needs to be expanded upon
 
  • #10
Well, take a break from the PC and enjoy Potato Cheese soup.

What kind of cheese, Cheddar? I think a jalapeño Monterrey Jack would be pretty good. Do they have French Onion soup on other days? :-p

As for MS, perhaps set autosave for every 10-15 minutes. :rolleyes:

In the previous company we 'had' to do that , as MS Apps and OS seemed so unreliable.

Now I if I do a major change, I just automatically do a manual save.

Sometimes I open a new document and work in that completely separately.

I have had spreadsheets crash for some trivial reason, and that really pisses me off. :mad: :devil:
 
  • #11
Math Is Hard said:
YAY!
Damn SQL server. Good thing MS doesn't make potato cheese soup. If someone else was trying to eat the soup at the same time as you, it might dissappear from your spoon before it got to your lips.
:smile: Sorry your soup has been terminated.
 
  • #12
Astronuc said:
Well, take a break from the PC and enjoy Potato Cheese soup.

What kind of cheese, Cheddar? I think a jalapeño Monterrey Jack would be pretty good. Do they have French Onion soup on other days? :-p
It's cream cheese.

As for MS, perhaps set autosave for every 10-15 minutes. :rolleyes:
You can't do that in this application, you either have an option to "update" or not. It's an application some ex employee wrote then left the company and for some unknown reason we are paying this guy millions to use it and it is the suckiest thing I've ever used. People that write this cr@p should be forced to use it.
 
  • #13
Evo said:
You can't do that in this application, you either have an option to "update" or not. It's an application some ex employee wrote then left the company and for some unknown reason we are paying this guy millions to use it and it is the suckiest thing I've ever used. People that write this cr@p should be forced to use it.
Ouch! I've had experience with a similar situation - piss poor customized software. :rolleyes:

Something is very wrong if the company is paying an ex-employee millions to use software that in theory was developed while he was an employee. :rolleyes: What do the company IT people think about it? Possibly if written under an earlier OS, its not upwardly compatable. Now - how do we rescue you from this place? :cool:
 
  • #14
Now - how do we rescue you from this place?

Use a bouncing bomb to breach the wall, have to pinch a lanc from somewhere, maybe we could get some locals to take care of the outer defences, any buildings in the flight path? we would need to get down
to about 100ft agl if memory serves, the tail gunner could straff the pill boxes, we would need a fast car for the final escape anyone have a cobra?
then it would be to the air pick up point ,we could use a lysander for the
short hop to an international airport, then to the secret location in england

So lancaster, bouncing bomb, lysander,cobra, packet of mints, heroic music
and some good luck.
 
  • #15
I'll send mints - I've got some right here.
 
  • #16
<takes mints from rach>

Couldn't I just buy a plane ticket?
 
  • #17
Evo said:
<takes mints from rach>

Couldn't I just buy a plane ticket?

Macho hero thwarted by a plane ticket, drat and double drat. i suppose we
could break the speed limit on our way here :devil: :devil:
 
  • #18
Evo said:
<takes mints from rach>

Couldn't I just buy a plane ticket?
Nah! Too easy! They'd be expecting that. Besides, that'd take the fun out it.

What we need is a surprise and a ripping diversion. I envision Wooly riding up on his motorbike, jumping the moat, sliding to a stop, you jumping on the bike, getting a firm grip of Woolie, Woolie racing his bike across the parking lot, jumping several cars, and you both riding of into the sunset, then ditching bike for the Cobra, racing to air pick up point, using a lysander for the short hop to an international airport, then to the secret location in England (actually it's another country disguised to look like England), but then we take you to the real one in secret. :cool:

Woolie is really 0063/4
 
  • #19
Moonbear said:
:smile: That would be bad.

I hate when a computer freezes up just as you hit save. Considering you work at a company that is supposed to be dealing with technology all day, you'd think they'd get their own technology a bit more up-to-date and functional. What sort of confidence does that inspire in a customer? "We'll sell you all these important, hi-tech, quality network components that your business is going to depend on, just as soon as we reboot our frozen computers." :rolleyes: (I don't know exactly if that's what your company sells, but you get the point.)

Boy do I know how that feels... You would not believe the POS printer and computer I have to use at work. Finding a printer cardridge used to be easy.. there were huge bins of them just take what you need... Now we buy them from Staples!
 
  • #20
What's with MS OS's and the Blue Screen of Death.

I turned on my Laptop yesterday in order to download my presentation for someone to transfer to the PC for the meeting.

It gets to the point where I am supposed to log in, and then goes into "Blue Screen of Death" with a subsequent "Main Memory Dump".

Fortunately, I had emailed the presentation to the chair of the meeting.

I need to get a memory stick. :rolleyes:
 
  • #21
Memory sticks are quite handy. I can't believe how much I use mine now.
 
  • #22
FredGarvin said:
Memory sticks are quite handy. I can't believe how much I use mine now.
Whenever I go to a technical meeting, just about everyone has a memory stick in the pocket or on a string/tether around the neck. I presume they are safe from the airport X-ray machines.

I was finally successful in starting up the Laptop in Safe Mode. I just had to hold down the F8 key from the very beginning. So later I will retrieve what I need from the HD, and the bash the H@$& out of it. :biggrin:
 
  • #23
Astronuc said:
Whenever I go to a technical meeting, just about everyone has a memory stick in the pocket or on a string/tether around the neck. I presume they are safe from the airport X-ray machines.
Yep, they're pretty durable. I have two now, and am thinking of getting a third, but then I was drooling over the tiny external harddrives when I was at the Apple Store, so might get one of those for back-up. They have a couple that are no bigger than a spare battery for my laptop. :approve:
 
  • #24
Moonbear said:
Yep, they're pretty durable. I have two now, and am thinking of getting a third, but then I was drooling over the tiny external harddrives when I was at the Apple Store, so might get one of those for back-up. They have a couple that are no bigger than a spare battery for my laptop. :approve:
They key is redundancy - redundant backup and redundant power supply. Sorry to be so redundant. :biggrin:
 
  • #25
I'm having a really bad day.

I left my makeup bag in the bathroom at work last night and it appears it has been stolen. :cry: I think they took it for the bag, I can't imagine that they wanted the contents. We have some seedy people working in this building.

To make me feel even worse I just got an e-mail from my best friend in Italy. I hadn't heard from him since he left for Milan and was sure he was angry because I haven't sent his camera to him yet.

NO. I hadn't heard from him because he's been floating around the Aeolian Islands on his friend's 2 million dollar yacht with bikini models on a photo shoot. :devil:

:cry:
 
  • #26
Evo said:
I'm having a really bad day.

I left my makeup bag in the bathroom at work last night and it appears it has been stolen. :cry: I think they took it for the bag, I can't imagine that they wanted the contents. We have some seedy people working in this building.
I'm sorry Evo. :frown: I will buy you a new lipstick. There is a special place in hell just for people who steal from the Sisters. :devil:

To make me feel even worse I just got an e-mail from my best friend in Italy. I hadn't heard from him since he left for Milan and was sure he was angry because I haven't sent his camera to him yet.

NO. I hadn't heard from him because he's been floating around the Aeolian Islands on his friend's 2 million dollar yacht with bikini models on a photo shoot. :devil:

:cry:
He's still alive? I thought he perished in a Romanian armpit-trap on his last voyage? :confused:
 
  • #27
Math Is Hard said:
I'm sorry Evo. :frown: I will buy you a new lipstick. There is a special place in hell just for people who steal from the Sisters. :devil:
First your clothes, now my makeup. I think I had a pair of gold earrings in there as well. What is this world coming to? :cry:

He's still alive? I thought he perished in a Romanian armpit-trap on his last voyage? :confused:
He's alive and thriving. Yeah, I didn't hear from him for 6 weeks after he did the Romanian bikini team photo shoot on the remote island of Ustica. He was busy.

MIH, I think you and I need to go to Italy...soon. Oh, and he also speaks French, so you could practice with him.
 
  • #28
My bag has been returned!

I posted a note on the door for whoever found it to please return it and...it's back! :!)

Ok, I feel better now.

Now I will go eat cheap tacos at the the Botulism Bistro.
 
  • #29
Moonbear said:
Yep, they're pretty durable. I have two now, and am thinking of getting a third, but then I was drooling over the tiny external harddrives when I was at the Apple Store, so might get one of those for back-up. They have a couple that are no bigger than a spare battery for my laptop. :approve:
They're easy to clean, too. Just leave them in your pocket and toss them in the washing machine and dryer.

I like how some people attach some kind of tether so they don't keep leaving them behind in the library computer. Reminds me of how you walk out to the car the next morning and notice the speaker from the drive-in movie is still hanging out the back window.
 
  • #30
Evo said:
I'm having a really bad day.

I left my makeup bag in the bathroom at work last night and it appears it has been stolen. :cry: I think they took it for the bag, I can't imagine that they wanted the contents. We have some seedy people working in this building.
Sorry to hear about your bad day, but pleased to hear that the bag has been returned.

Evo said:
To make me feel even worse I just got an e-mail from my best friend in Italy. I hadn't heard from him since he left for Milan and was sure he was angry because I haven't sent his camera to him yet.

NO. I hadn't heard from him because he's been floating around the Aeolian Islands on his friend's 2 million dollar yacht with bikini models on a photo shoot. :devil:
Presumably that's why he needed the camera. :biggrin:
 
  • #31
Evo said:
MIH, I think you and I need to go to Italy...soon. Oh, and he also speaks French, so you could practice with him.
I was just looking at the Italian Soccer team. :!) :!) :!)
When do we leave? :-p
 
  • #32
Math Is Hard said:
I was just looking at the Italian Soccer team. :!) :!) :!)
When do we leave? :-p
My bags are already packed. :-p
 
  • #33
So has Evo been victimized yet
 

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