Aug 29, 2008 · A deadlock is a state of a system in which no single process/thread is capable of executing an action. As mentioned by others, a deadlock is typically the result of a situation where …

An example of this is the Windows UI thread or the ASP.NET request context. In these single-threaded synchronization contexts, it’s easy to deadlock yourself. If you spawn off a task from a single …

May 5, 2010 · What is a deadlock in SQL Server and when it arises? What are the issues with deadlock and how to resolve it?

May 27, 2011 · Can somebody please explain with examples (of code) what is the difference between deadlock and livelock?

Jul 3, 2016 · Deadlock freedom is a pretty hard problem in a big system. It has nothing to do with EF by itself. Shortening the lifetime of your transactions reduces deadlocks but it introduces data …

Jan 6, 2017 · Why deadlocks? In order to understand why you are running into a deadlock, it's important to understand what the Serializable Isolation Level means. The documentation of SQL Server …

A deadlock detected by the database will effectively rollback the transaction in which you were running (if any), while the connection is kept open in .NET. Retrying that operation (in that same connection), …

Nov 29, 2010 · A deadlock occurs when two threads each lock a different variable at the same time and then try to lock the variable that the other thread already locked. As a result, each thread stops …

Oct 30, 2012 · On my blog, I go into the details of how blocking in asynchronous code causes deadlock. await will asynchronously wait until the task completes. This means the current method is "paused" …

Jul 21, 2011 · The SQL Server "randomly" picks one of the queries to deadlock out of the resources asked for and fails it out, throwing an exception. I have an app running ~ 40 instances and a back …