Wonderful interlude in troubleshooting.

[johnpalmer]

Me: "The problem is asynchronous network IO. That's when the server is putting stuff out there and cheerfully waiting for a response before it continues. It's supposed to wait, but not this long, so something has to be going wrong, possibly at the network level."

SomeoneElse: "Can someone translate that from SQL Engineer to English?"

Dan (who has clearly seen Cool Hand Luke):"What we have here is a failure to communicate... between SQL and the app server."

Comments

[siliconivy.livejournal.com]

HEEEEEE!

[leiacat.livejournal.com]

You don't need to have seen the movie to quote the line, it's ubiquitous enough. (I may quote it, and I've never seen the movie.)

[johnpalmer.livejournal.com]

Sure, but I wanted a simple way to explain to the reader that he got the quote almost exactly as I remember Paul Newman delivering it (the one time he delivers it). You're right; he could have just been winging it.

[leiacat.livejournal.com]

After about 20 years in the States I finally gathered the Round Tuits to see Godfather. It's amazing how many quotes turned out to be from it!