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7-Jun-12 10:32

Articles, blogs, Q&A questions and answers - count for none of them are being displayed. Though, opening personal page does display them.

Sandeep Mewara
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Re: Who's Who page...

Elina Blank7-Jun-12 10:50

Elina Blank

7-Jun-12 10:50

I think you were lucky enough to hit database timeouts when getting statistics.
The values are displayed for me now

Sincerely,
Elina Blank

Life is great!!! Enjoy every moment of it! Blush | :O

Re: Who's Who page...

Sandeep Mewara7-Jun-12 16:32

I guessed most people have noticed that the hamsters went on strike today

7-Jun-12 16:32

I see them now. Thumbs Up | :thumbsup:

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So What Happened?

Bassam Abdul-Baki7-Jun-12 6:40

Bassam Abdul-Baki

7-Jun-12 6:40

Chris,

I'm curious to know what happened today. Care to share the story?

Thanks!
Bassam

P.S. - It seems RootAdmin was also affected.

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Re: So What Happened?

Chris Maunder11-Jun-12 16:32

Chris Maunder

11-Jun-12 16:32

I was on holidays so it wasn't me and you can't prove it anyway.

OK, fine.

What happened is that we needed to upgrade an index on a very large table. This was a quick operation on our dev/staging, but turned out to be (surprise, surprise!) a much bigger task on live, even though we tested against the same data. Much, much, much bigger.

I was expecting maybe 5-10 mins of weird-time, but it just dragged on and on so I killed the index creation. This then caused 2 further issues: An expensive rollback, and a database with an important index missing.

The simple solution was to take the site offline for 5 mins, add the index, and we're back on track. Unfortunately, a totally avoidable error. Live and learn.

cheers,
Chris Maunder

The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP

Re: So What Happened?

Bassam Abdul-Baki12-Jun-12 0:48

Bassam Abdul-Baki

12-Jun-12 0:48

Chris Maunder wrote:
The simple solution was to take the site offline for 5 mins, add the index, and we're back on track.

So you were doing this live and only pursued this option after the crash?

Also, I still can't vote on IE at work. That is I have to hit F5 to vote a few times before it fails again. But every time I hit F5, I can vote a couple of times before it does fail.

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Jörgen Andersson7-Jun-12 5:54

Jörgen Andersson

7-Jun-12 5:54

I just thought I'd share a couple of things I've noticed, in the unlikely case you haven't noticed it yourselves.

I was most of the time logged out.
I was ALWAYS logged out on the "New Message" page
The last updated date varied wildly

Web04 | 2.5.120604.1 | Last Updated 10 Aug 2007
Web02 | 2.5.120604.1 | Last Updated 10 Aug 2007
Web01 | 2.5.120604.1 | Last Updated 6 Jun 2012
Web01 | 2.5.120604.1 | Last Updated 23 Mar 2002
Web03 | 2.5.120604.1 | Last Updated 23 Mar 2002
Web04 | 2.5.120604.1 | Last Updated 7 Jun 2012
Web02 | 2.5.120604.1 | Last Updated 10 Aug 2007
Web01 | 2.5.120604.1 | Last Updated 7 Jun 2012

Whenever the date was the 6th or 7th of june 2012 things seemed to work. otherwise not

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Re: I guessed most people have noticed that the hamsters went on strike today

Sandeep Mewara7-Jun-12 8:12

Re: I guessed most people have noticed that the hamsters went on strike today

7-Jun-12 8:12

+1....

Logged in now after I consistently faced the issue around 2pm IST.... D'Oh! | :doh:

Sandeep Mewara
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Sean Ewington7-Jun-12 8:39

Re: I guessed most people have noticed that the hamsters went on strike today

7-Jun-12 8:39

Hi Jörgen,

Apologies for the delayed response. We were frantically fixing the problem. It should be good now. You aren't still being logged out when adding a new message, and the date isn't still varying wildly, is it?

Thanks,
Sean Ewington
The Code Project

Jörgen Andersson7-Jun-12 8:52

Jörgen Andersson

7-Jun-12 8:52

Everything seems fine since a couple of hours, but the string at the bottom of the page reads: "Web02 | 2.5.120604.1 | Last Updated 10 Aug 2007"
But having tested it on several forums, that date seems to be consistent for the few replies and new messages I tried.

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Re: I guessed most people have noticed that the hamsters went on strike today

Sean Ewington7-Jun-12 9:03

Re: I guessed most people have noticed that the hamsters went on strike today

7-Jun-12 9:03

That date is actually OK, but thank you kindly for checking on a few forums, as well as your detailed initial report. Very glad to hear all is well.

Thanks,
Sean Ewington
The Code Project

Jörgen Andersson7-Jun-12 9:07

Jörgen Andersson

7-Jun-12 9:07

It seems to me that you had already fixed it when I posted. Thumbs Up | :thumbsup:

I guess I should have mailed you at webmaster@codeproject.com instead of repeated retries. D'Oh! | :doh:

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Re: I guessed most people have noticed that the hamsters went on strike today

Sean Ewington7-Jun-12 9:26

Looks like blog posts are getting posted twice...

7-Jun-12 9:26

Both webmaster and this forum are the correct places for the issue. You did good soldier. *salute*

Thanks,
Sean Ewington
The Code Project

Sandeep Mewara6-Jun-12 9:26

Re: Looks like blog posts are getting posted twice...

6-Jun-12 9:26

Few to refer:
Important facts about datagridview[^]
Windows Mobile: Kiosk Mode Series, part 2[^]
Globalization, Localization And Why My Application Stopped Launching[^]

Sandeep Mewara
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Sean Ewington7-Jun-12 7:45

Re: Looks like blog posts are getting posted twice...

7-Jun-12 7:45

Thanks very much for the catch. There were some problems with aggregated blog entries showing up and fixing that problem unfortunately created a few duplicates. I've been trying to catch them and appreciate the assist.

Thanks,
Sean Ewington
The Code Project

Sandeep Mewara7-Jun-12 8:13

I don't know if this is me, but...

7-Jun-12 8:13

Glad to be of some help.

Thumbs Up | :thumbsup:

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OriginalGriff6-Jun-12 8:44

OriginalGriff

6-Jun-12 8:44

I've had two problems with the site today: first I got logged out between looking at a page and pressing the Reply button, and had to log in to avoid "posting as an anonymous user" (which I didn't know we could do anyway). Then just now I got switched between fluid and fixed layout without touching anything, except the F5 key.

I haven't added any software today, my browser is still Chrome 19.0.1084.52, just as it was last week, and I've had no problem with any other sites. Is it possible that some cookies are expiring at different rates? A quick look at the 15 cookies you have here and the expiry dates are a bit all over the place (10 October 2036, 3 December 2012, 3 March 2015, 14 May 2014, 12 November 2012, 6 June 2014 and so on)

It's not a major problem, but the fixed / fluid change is not the first time, and it's a little disconcerting! Laugh | :laugh:

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Sandeep Mewara6-Jun-12 9:38

6-Jun-12 9:38

OriginalGriff wrote:
Then just now I got switched between fluid and fixed layout without touching anything,

I faced the same some 3-4 hours back from now. Suddenly on page change, my fluid layout changed to fixed.
Further, the page size too got reset to 25 and I have to again set it back to 50.

OriginalGriff wrote:
I don't know if this is me, but...

Looks like you are not alone! Hmmm | :|

Sandeep Mewara
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OriginalGriff6-Jun-12 9:45

OriginalGriff

6-Jun-12 9:45

My page size stayed the same at 50, but it's good to know the Hamsters aren't just out to get me Laugh | :laugh:

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Brisingr Aerowing6-Jun-12 10:29

Brisingr Aerowing

6-Jun-12 10:29

I've had the fixed/fluid issue as well. And yes, it is annoying. Never seen the logout issue, though.

public class SysAdmin : Employee
{

     public override void DoWork(IWorkItem workItem)
     {
          if (workItem.User.Type == UserType.NoLearn){
             throw new NoIWillNotFixYourComputerException(new Luser(workItem.User));
          }else{
               base.DoWork(workItem);
          }
     }

}