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Oh The Horror! And New Tickets

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WWE, amazing. Do those sell out these days? I haven't been to a taping of Raw in many years, but I remember they used to backing during they heyday of The Rock and Stone Cold Steve Austin.

It depends. If it's at a venue with over 80,000 seat it's very hard to sell out. As amazing as it seems, WWE is still popular. Yes, fake wrestling.

UFC is super hot right now. NASCAR is already the second most popular "sport" (ugh) behind football, but UFC should be grabbing the third spot soon if they haven't already.

Third in terms of ticket sales? I know NFL is only third in terms of total attendance due to having so few games.

I read a couple articles recently that said NASCAR attendance is dropping. Their audience is, umm, how to say this politely... the group most likely to be hurt by an economic downturn.

Television ratings inside the US.

Concert site structure and user dashboards are next.

Kudos for being so open and also for injecting a bit of humor into these posts. Tom is a badass developer and I know TicketStumbler is going to be even more awesome as you roll out more concerts and more.

I'm afraid I lost part of the thread. Was the final solution to move to a new machine?

Is that what this means?

By eliminating all the variables of the current machine, the question answered itself, without days of debugging.

Yeah, sorry I didn't clarify better. The real problem likely had something to do with the disk drives as the we'd been having problems with a couple drives on that machine. It basically came down to "re-install software, replace hardware" or just "move to the new stuff now."

The second option was going to be done in a way that didn't have any downtime, but with some many bad things happening at once it didn't make sense to wait.

I take great offense in your unwarranted picking on Danes

:-)

If it makes you feel better I'm 25% Danish. :P

Wow, how bad was the code before you made it "too awesome" in your latest update? Sounds like you need some new programmers and three new DBAs.

Sounds like you need some candy, Mister! Candy always cheers me up!

Hi,

We admittedly cut a lot of corners in order to get launched in two months with only two people. So far, it's been worth the gamble.

heh you sure were cutting it close, getting to the point where you couldn't select.

Yep.

Speaking of, you could speed up queries in general by avoiding Select * .

See here: http://wiki.lessthandot.com/index.php/Don't_Use_(select_*),_but_List_Columns

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