Mark Breen
marklbreen at gmail.com
Sat Jun 12 03:17:59 CDT 2010
Hello John, I completely echo what Hans-Christian says about TortiseSVN. It is one level of comlexity less that doing your checkins in VS. When I ran into compatability issues between Tortise and AnKH, I de-installed AnKH and now happily checkin from the Windows Explorer. It has the added benefit that I do not clutter the solution with overlaid icons also. I know, I know "but I cannot see what needs to be checked in when I am in VS", but you can easily flick over to Win Explorer and you can still do all the check-ins there, only it might be safer. Having said all of that, Joel Spolsky believes that Mecurial is the way of the future with SCCS. I installed Mecurial last week and had it up and running in ten minutes, it is conceptually different than SubVersion. I value Joel's opinion, so I am thinking of switching completely to Mecurial. However, I am trying to decide whether to run it solely from the command line - have to admit I do not favour that - but it might be fun to try. Thanks Mark On 10 June 2010 22:31, Hans-Christian Andersen <ha at phulse.com> wrote: > John, > > Without looking at code, it would be hard to determine if the issue you are > suffering from is related to deadlocks or race conditions or misbehaving > code in your thread model or whatnot... nor is it out of the realm of > possibility that SQL Server itself is causing the operating system to hang > at a time of high load from your application, due to its own internal > operations. > > But by performance graphs, I'm referring to something that collects data of > your system (cpu, networking, memory, paging, database queries/loads, etc) > and provides graphs or raw data for you to get a general idea of where the > problem may lie (take one of my servers, for example: > > http://kungfusus.gotdns.com/munin/localdomain/localhost.localdomain/index.html > ). > On my side of the fence in *nix land, I use something called Munin which > does such a thing. I believe there's even a Munin node for Windows, > although > I'm sure there are solutions that suit the Windows environment far better ( > ie. http://www.monitortools.com/ ). > > Long story short, while it may not necessarily spell out what your exact > problem is, at least you have some information about the mental state of > your server in the last moments before it shuffled off this mortal coil... > and > this can be quite useful in narrowing down where the problem is. > > But, I have to say, it doesn't seem like you are doing anything too > 'exotic', and considering that SQL Server is used by governments and big > enterprise, I'd be surprised if there were serious stability problems > merely > from the process of exporting and importing. > > With regards to VisualSVN, well, personally, I do all my subversioning from > the command line, because I felt relying too much on a GUI would one day > put > me at a disadvantage, but I recommend http://tortoisesvn.tigris.org/ . It > integrates with Windows Explorer, so it's a level deeper than a plug-in for > Visual Studio and has always worked rather reliably. > > However, it would be interesting to see if moving your app off to > a separate workstation solves the problem... I think that would raise more > questions than it would answer though! :p > > Hans-Christian > Software Developer, UK > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > tel: +44 (0)782 894 5456 > e-mail: hans.andersen at phulse.com > www: nokenode.com > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > Unique Gifts, Collectables, Artwork > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > Come one > Come all to > www.corinnajasmine.com > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > > >