diff --git a/experiments/15-e2e-scenarios-v2-baselines/common_daylong.sh b/experiments/15-e2e-scenarios-v2-baselines/common_daylong.sh
index b655c890..208dfcf5 100644
--- a/experiments/15-e2e-scenarios-v2-baselines/common_daylong.sh
+++ b/experiments/15-e2e-scenarios-v2-baselines/common_daylong.sh
@@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ function start_snowset_repeating_olap_runner() {
     --baseline $ANALYTICS_ENGINE
     --run-for-s $run_for_s
     --output-dir $results_dir
-    --issue-slots 5
+    --issue-slots $analytics_issue_slots
   )
 
   >&2 echo "[Snowset Repeating Analytics] Running with $ra_clients..."
@@ -108,7 +108,7 @@ function start_snowset_txn_runner() {
     --output-dir $results_dir \
     --run-for-s $run_for_s \
     --baseline $TRANSACTION_ENGINE \
-    --issue-slots 5 \
+    --issue-slots $txn_issue_slots \
     --avg-gap-s 0.025 \
     --avg-gap-std-s 0.002 \
     &
@@ -134,7 +134,7 @@ function start_sequence_runner() {
     --avg-gap-std-s $gap_std_s
     --baseline $ANALYTICS_ENGINE
     --output-dir $results_dir
-    --issue-slots 5
+    --issue-slots $analytics_issue_slots
   )
 
   >&2 echo "[Seq Analytics] Running with $num_clients..."
diff --git a/experiments/15-e2e-scenarios-v2-baselines/daylong/run_workload.sh b/experiments/15-e2e-scenarios-v2-baselines/daylong/run_workload.sh
index 657bc7e0..cf11d125 100755
--- a/experiments/15-e2e-scenarios-v2-baselines/daylong/run_workload.sh
+++ b/experiments/15-e2e-scenarios-v2-baselines/daylong/run_workload.sh
@@ -10,6 +10,8 @@ run_for_s=$(bc <<< "scale=0; ($hours * 60 * 60) / 1.0")
 # Add 5 minutes of buffer time.
 total_time_s=$(($run_for_s + 5 * 60))
 clients_multiplier=1
+analytics_issue_slots=5
+txn_issue_slots=1
 max_num_clients=$((10 * $clients_multiplier))
 gap_dist_path="workloads/IMDB_20GB/regular_test/gap_time_dist.npy"
 query_frequency_path="workloads/IMDB_100GB/regular_test/query_frequency.npy"
@@ -40,15 +42,15 @@ log_workload_point "clients_starting"
 start_snowset_repeating_olap_runner $max_num_clients $time_scale_factor $clients_multiplier "ra" $run_for_s
 rana_pid=$runner_pid
 
-# # Transactions.
-# start_snowset_txn_runner $max_num_clients $time_scale_factor $clients_multiplier "t" $run_for_s
-# txn_pid=$runner_pid
+# Transactions.
+start_snowset_txn_runner $max_num_clients $time_scale_factor $clients_multiplier "t" $run_for_s
+txn_pid=$runner_pid
 
-# # Ad-hoc queries.
-# # 2 clients, issuing once per 8 minutes on average with a standard deviation of
-# # 2 minutes.
-# start_sequence_runner 2 $((8 * 60)) $((2 * 60)) "adhoc"
-# adhoc_pid=$runner_pid
+# Ad-hoc queries.
+# 2 clients, issuing once per 8 minutes on average with a standard deviation of
+# 2 minutes.
+start_sequence_runner 2 $((8 * 60)) $((2 * 60)) "adhoc"
+adhoc_pid=$runner_pid
 
 log_workload_point "clients_started"
 
diff --git a/load_baseline.py b/load_baseline.py
index 9198565f..8723c8c5 100644
--- a/load_baseline.py
+++ b/load_baseline.py
@@ -44,8 +44,8 @@ def main():
         )
     if args.metrics:
         from datetime import datetime, timedelta
-        start_time = datetime(year=2023, month=12, day=27, hour=14, minute=17)
-        end_time = datetime(year=2023, month=12, day=28, hour=2, minute=22)
+        start_time = datetime(year=2024, month=1, day=22, hour=13, minute=38, second=10)
+        end_time = datetime(year=2024, month=1, day=23, hour=1, minute=43, second=10)
         outdir = "expt_out_daylong_redshift_aurora"
         df = loader.fetch_metrics(start_time=start_time, end_time=end_time)
         # Write to csv
diff --git a/workloads/IMDB_extended/run_repeating_analytics.py b/workloads/IMDB_extended/run_repeating_analytics.py
index 4d28b56e..440d0aa6 100644
--- a/workloads/IMDB_extended/run_repeating_analytics.py
+++ b/workloads/IMDB_extended/run_repeating_analytics.py
@@ -232,7 +232,10 @@ def handle_result(result: QueryResult) -> None:
                 print(f"QUERY ERROR: {ex}", file=sys.stderr, flush=True)
                 if ex.is_transient():
                     verbose_logger.warning("Transient query error: %s", ex.message())
-
+                    if "syntax" in ex.message().lower():
+                        verbose_logger.warning(f"SYNTAX ERROR: {ex}")
+                        print("SYNTAX ERROR", file=sys.stderr, flush=True)
+                        exit(1)
                     if bh.backoff is None:
                         bh.backoff = RandomizedExponentialBackoff(
                             max_retries=100,
diff --git a/workloads/IMDB_extended/workload_utils/baseline.py b/workloads/IMDB_extended/workload_utils/baseline.py
index d143cfdb..9263af46 100644
--- a/workloads/IMDB_extended/workload_utils/baseline.py
+++ b/workloads/IMDB_extended/workload_utils/baseline.py
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ def make_tidb_conn():
             allow_local_infile=True,
         )
         cur = conn.cursor()
-        cur.execute("SET sql_mode = 'ANSI';")
+        cur.execute("SET SESSION sql_mode = 'REAL_AS_FLOAT,PIPES_AS_CONCAT,ANSI_QUOTES,IGNORE_SPACE,ONLY_FULL_GROUP_BY,ANSI';")
         conn.commit()
         cur.close()
         return conn