# Database problems

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/database-problems/108213>\
**Category:** About This Message Board\
**Created:** [May 10, 2002, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/database-problems/108213 "2002-05-10T01:47:11Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![dogbutler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dogbutler/32/428_2.png) [@dogbutler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dogbutler)\
**Post date:** [May 10, 2002, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/database-problems/108213/1 "2002-05-10T01:47:11Z")

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I’ve noticed the last few days that if I look at more than a few threads,I start getting database error messages. Did a hamster die,or is it just me?

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**Author:** ![Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/50afbb/32.png) [@Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duck_Duck_Goose)\
**Post date:** [May 10, 2002, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/database-problems/108213/2 "2002-05-10T03:13:48Z")

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I’ve been posting here for two years now, and I literally cannot remember a time when the boards _weren’t_ slow, or when thread-loading didn’t time out at some point in the proceedings, or when you never got the “There seems to have been a problem with the database” error screen.

It’s not just you, it’s the slow server and our own popularity. You get used to it. [shrug] 😃

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**Author:** ![Arnold\_Winkelried](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)\
**Post date:** [May 10, 2002, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/database-problems/108213/3 "2002-05-10T14:15:46Z")

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dogbutler - it’s not just you, I’ve seen it too, and (obviously) so has Duck Duck Goose. As DDG says it’s due to the overworked server. I don’t think it’s related to the number of threads that you view in a day.

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**Author:** ![mnemosyne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c4cdca/32.png) [@mnemosyne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mnemosyne)\
**Post date:** [May 10, 2002, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/database-problems/108213/4 "2002-05-10T22:13:21Z")

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I tend to get it when I try to open too many threads at once…it serves as a pretty good measure of how slow the boards are at any given time… 🙂 Although, I try to limit myself to loading 2-4 threads at the most.

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**Author:** ![dogbutler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dogbutler/32/428_2.png) [@dogbutler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dogbutler)\
**Post date:** [May 11, 2002, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/database-problems/108213/5 "2002-05-11T00:13:46Z")

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So the hamsters are alive, they’re just on Quaaludes.😉