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2 days before I got married, I dropped the production database by accident from a GUI tool where “right-clicking” can be destructive if you click to fast. The a
by BalancedThought 5y ago
2 days before I got married, I dropped the production database by accident from a GUI tool where “right-clicking” can be destructive if you click to fast. The application scheduled radio and television commercials and within 48 US states for a large international advertising group. The bigger problem was that the DBA had only been doing incremental backups and didn’t have a full back against which to run the incremental backups. He had never created a full backup.
Fortunately, given the nature of media buys in that time, all placements were printed and faxed. My team sent me to my wedding rehearsal dinner and spent the next two days collecting printed orders and re-keying them into the system.
I am forever grateful to that team.
- unethical_ban 5y agoBackups aren't important, restores are.
- klysm 5y ago> where “right-clicking” can be destructive if you click to fast That’s pretty amazing in the most terrible way possible
- thedanbob 5y ago> a GUI tool where “right-clicking” can be destructive if you click to fast Fun fact, there’s a current bug in VS Code where right clicking on a file in the sidebar immediately triggers the menu entry that appears under the cursor, which happens to be delete. I’ve had it happen randomly for several months now.
- BalancedThought 5y agoExactly the kind of thing that I am still afraid of to this day. :)