On a doorway in Dover
I once stumbled over
a programmer wrapped in a sheet
This poor prostrate nerd
didn’t utter a word
as he lay there half-blocking the street<\/p>\n
“From your face I can see
that you work in IT
what has brought you to this sorry state?”
This poor wretched geek
then started to speak
and told me his terrible fate<\/p>\n
Cruel fortune had picked him,
as sad deadlock victim.
The conflict had left him for dead;
for wise men don’t mess
with a deadlocked process
an incident DBAs dread.<\/p>\n
“When I’m dead, on my harp
I shall play in C#”
On my terminal, happy I’ll be.
I’m going offline
to a site that’s divine
where all pizza and coffee is free.”<\/p>\n
“Insert into grave
select * from poor Dave
And put on my gravestone ‘Raiserror!
a victim, one time
of a deadlocking crime”
Then he died with a look of sheer terror.<\/p>\n
(lines written on getting the famous , and dreaded error 1205, ‘Your server command (proces id xx) was deadlocked with another process and has been chosen as deadlock victim. Please re-run your command’<\/em>, whilst listening to ‘The Streets of Loredo’ on Internet Radio.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" On a doorway in DoverI once stumbled overa programmer wrapped in a sheetThis poor prostrate nerddidn’t utter a word as he lay there half-blocking the street “From your face I can seethat you work in ITwhat has brought you to this sorry state?”This poor wretched geekthen started to speakand told me his terrible fate Cruel……<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":154613,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-2311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.red-gate.com\/simple-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.red-gate.com\/simple-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.red-gate.com\/simple-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.red-gate.com\/simple-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/154613"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.red-gate.com\/simple-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2311"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.red-gate.com\/simple-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2311\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41388,"href":"https:\/\/www.red-gate.com\/simple-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2311\/revisions\/41388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.red-gate.com\/simple-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.red-gate.com\/simple-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.red-gate.com\/simple-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2311"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.red-gate.com\/simple-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=2311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}