[de6u99er]

LOL

Recently I helicoptered into a call with three developers trying to execute a database upgrade and it seemed to be hanging. I joined the moment when they wanted to interrupt it and try again for the third time.

Only thing I asked was, if something is locking the schema. Then I left to another meeting and I saw them exchanging statements to find locks and delete them in the chat. Turns out there were long running queries hanging that nobody seems to care about. To me it's hard to believe nobody has configured a query timeout on the database