Even when you love your job, you can get too much of a good thing. How do you know when your love of technology is taking you too far away from reality?
Take our quiz to diagnose your mental state.
Our Quiz: Diagnose if Your Inner Geek is Out of Control
Have you found yourself doing any of the following? Assign yourself 1 point for each positive answer.
5. Your voicemail greeting says, “The DBA was not found or was not accessible. Verify that the name is correct and that the DBA is configured to allow remote connections.”
4. You answer a user complaint with the statement, “You have been chosen as the deadlock victim, please retry your transaction.”
3. Your boss asks you to redo work for a coworker. You say, “Your ROLLBACK request has no corresponding BEGIN TRANSACTION.”
2. Your email signature contains the phrase “The DBA is waiting for an internal operation to complete. If you encounter this problem regularly, report it to Microsoft.”
1. When asked to do anything unpleasant, you answer: “A severe error occurred on the current command. The results, if any, should be discarded.”
How to Get Help
If you scored even a single point on our quiz, it’s time to seek help. As a first step back to reality, try looking at pictures of cute animals.
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Brilliant. I am going to start using #4 immediately.
#3 and #4 are going to become regulars I can see it.. Love it..
Yes – Absolutely Brilliant ! Love them all.
Number 3 for the win, LOL!
Nice! =))
I liked #1, #3 but #4 is my favourite now =)
I use cntrl-E to execute queries/scripts in SSMS.
Occasionally, I find myself hitting cntrl-E in other programs when I want them to perform the obvious action. That seems like a too-much-SQL-Server warning.
When you start yelling “F5! F5!” at the TV remote or your significant other, that’s also a bad sign.
Yes, and you’re very unlikely to get the results you were hoping for.
That’s an awesome list, Kendra!
I have another one –
When your manager/co-worker asked you how the meeting went, your answer is:
“An error occurred while executing batch. Error message is: Exception of type ‘System.OutOfMemoryException’ was thrown.”
(warning: do not say the above if you forget to buy a present for your wife on her birthday, ever!)
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Because of you i landed on this useless page. I was looking for the very exception you mentioned as a poor joke. Please avoid this.
We do try to still occasionally have fun on the internet. Good luck with your search.
I was looking up the same exception error and landed here but it lightened up my rather frusterating day. Thank you!
I too was looking for the same error :’D
Same here!
So, did anyone landed on this page after looking up that exception error ever find the solution(s)?
If you’re seeing System.OutOfMemoryException errors when running sp_Blitz, this is almost always because SQL Server Management Studio has run out of memory, not your SQL Server. Try quitting and restarting SSMS. If you’re running SSMS on the same machine as your SQL Server, also make sure to leave your system enough RAM to function (as explained here https://www.brentozar.com/blitz/max-memory/).
Me too, maybe your site is too popular 🙂
lol. I like the present comment.