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This image has been circulating as the cause of the outage. Can't confirm either way: http://i.imgur.com/zoX08TY.png http://i.imgur.com/zoX08TY.png

• MichaelGG 11y ago
  "The main POS table was deleted" If true, perhaps someone learned the value of BEGIN TRANSACTION today.
  • raverbashing 11y ago
    Yes, their "IT support" (that costs how much per year again), run by some underpaid "SQL Specialist" in India with 9 layers of Middle-management above probably fumbled an SQL query. Note: This is a critique of "corporate IT services" essentially, overpriced and underperforming
    • ionwake 11y ago
      lol
  • tzs 11y ago
    Or, if they were using MySQL, what they may have learned today is that DDL statements (such as DROP TABLE) implicitly COMMIT.
    • potatosareok 11y ago
      While I did learn something new from your comment, I can't imagine any enterprise shop that's not running Oracle DB or MSSQL. Maybe it's just the bias I have from my job history, but for standard enterprise shops and their OLTP data, is there any competitor to Oracle DB & MSSQL? I know that at my employer they use berekleydb/teradata/hadoop/mainframe systems for different workloads, but the bread and butter is Oracle RAC clusters. Not saying that I think Oracle DB & MSSQL is unbeatable, I'm asking because I am trying to see what exists outside my little biased view.