Monthly Archives: August, 2009
The Bees Are Coming!
Send article as PDF Tomorrow night (Tuesday 18th August 2009), Alison and I are off out to a secret location near where we live to colect our very first honey bee swarm. Our Mentor, Peter, has been looking after then for us while we were on holiday, and tomorrow we get to take [...]
Oracle deadlocks – what happens?
Send article as PDF From time to time an Oracle based application will encounter a deadlock. This happens when two (or more) sessions are holding onto a resource and waiting for another one before it can relinquish the one(s) it holds.