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Currently looking. I finally came to my last straw recently. A coworker sent me an email because some data I was in charge of adding to the system was missing.
by Declanomous 10y ago
Currently looking. I finally came to my last straw recently.
A coworker sent me an email because some data I was in charge of adding to the system was missing. I looked, and somehow data in our database had gone missing. I use the data to add information to another database, and that database had the information in it. So somehow he managed to lose information in SQL Server.
A few weeks later, my boss brought me in to his office because about 25k rows had incorrect information. I went to check my notes, and all of my notes from a period of 10 days were missing. I had been creating a changed file log (because files have been lost in the past), and I could see I had created notes during those dates, but they didn't exist anywhere.
The only evidence I had done my job at all during that time were the emails I sent to other people. (Thankfully Microsoft hosts these, so the IT director can't mess it up.) I had sent somebody an email that basically said "I found error [x], but I fixed it."
For a little while I was questioning whether I was insane. I mean, I would never have believed it was possible for data that you've added to an ACID database to just disappear. If you can't trust ACID principles, what can you trust?
- koolba 10y agoI've seen this happen as well. Data "mysteriously" reverted and it turned out to be an unrequested database restore. They reverted to a recent backup but didn't mention it to anybody so a few days of data was missing.
- Declanomous 10y agoThat is definitely what happened. One manager found out about this and called him and ended up verbally tearing in to him for like an hour. She is really task-oriented and gets really frustrated with how often I want to change things just to see what happens. It felt really good to hear her step up to defend me, because she would only do that for someone who she really respects.
- the-dude 10y agoSounds like the BOFH