RE: How to put egg on your face

What the hell are you doing here? (On the list at this hour!) I'm stuck working 6pm-6am shifts for the next couple of days, but you.. ;) GO SLEEP! 8)

SMF 8)
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rachel Carmichael [mailto:carmichr_at_hotmail.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, November 14, 2000 7:45 PM
> To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
> Subject: Re: How to put egg on your face
>
>
> As a friend of mine often says....
>
> sometimes you're the windshield, sometimes you're the bug
>
> sounds like today you were the bug....
>
> my most heartfelt sympathies. Been there, done that.... or at least
> something similarly embarrassing
>
>
> >From: Jonathan Gennick <jonathan_at_gennick.com>
> >Reply-To: ORACLE-L_at_fatcity.com
> >To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <ORACLE-L_at_fatcity.com>
> >Subject: How to put egg on your face
> >Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2000 16:55:24 -0800
> >
> >Here's a new recipe I discovered today for putting egg on my
> >face:
> >
> >1. Run low on disk on the server
> >
> >2. Hurriedly delete "unused" database files in order to free
> >up space because you are behind on a deadline.
> >
> >(you can see where this is going, right<grin>).
> >
> >3. Call up Oracle Support about a completely different
> >problem.
> >
> >4. While on the phone with the support analyst, "bounce"
> >database instance to change a parameter setting.
> >
> >5. Discover that instance won't start because files are
> >missing.
> >
> >6. Mutter various words that should be deprecated from the
> >English language<grin>.
> >
> >7. Defer discussion of original problem until you can
> >rebuild the database.
> >
> >8. Imagine support analyst laughing after she hangs up the
> >phone.
> >
> >It's very important to do steps 4-7 while on the phone with
> >a knowledgeable Oracle professional, so that you can
> >maximize the exposure of your utterly stupid act of deleting
> >your database files while your database is running.
> >
> >I should know better. It was a test database, and because of
> >that I got a bit too cavalier with it. I paid by spending a
> >couple of hours recreating the database from scratch. On the
> >positive side, the support call involved some database links
> >that I couldn't seem to drop. Trashing the entire database
> >took care of that problem quite nicely<grin>.
> >
> >Best regards,
> >
> >Jonathan
> >mailto:jonathan_at_gennick.com
> >http://gennick.com
> >
> >
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