RE: OT - Getting fired for database oops

From: alever\_at_libero\.it <alever_at_libero.it>
Date: Mon, 18 May 2009 14:23:49 +0200
Message-Id: <KJUAFP$903B46692EB3E049A5DB11FC27F42004_at_libero.it>

...That was not the case, I believe, because I'm somehow fussy about PS1 prompts...instead, I do remember well my head slightly turning while climbing on the stairs on the way back from lunch.

Most probably the hostname in PS1 was misreaded by my sleepy eyes.....:)))

Alessandro

>Humm, I doubt that a pint of beer was the culprit. More likely a PS1 prompt that simply said '$'.
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>Dick Goulet
>Senior Oracle DBA
>PAREXEL International
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>Some years ago (it was 2002), after a pint of beer during lunch, I completely deleted a database , thinking I was working on another machine; database was little (less then 10g) but it was production: the restore took a couple of hours and there was no economic damage for that outage but, since then, I've *never* drink alcoholics during work....
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>Alessandro
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