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You have my DEEPEST sympathies....... hard lesson to learn but you'll never
make that mistake again.
Rachel
>From: "Jesse, Rich" <Rich.Jesse_at_qtiworld.com>
>Reply-To: ORACLE-L_at_fatcity.com
>To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <ORACLE-L_at_fatcity.com>
>Subject: How much beer should a DBA consume? (Or, how to learn from my mis
>Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2000 10:21:09 -0800
>
>So, there I was, creating a new QA pre-production copy-of-production
>Oracle8
>database. I figured that I could just use a copy of the DB/TS/RBS creation
>scripts that I used for the Development DB, right?
>
>Well, when you forget to edit the TS create script and it re-creates
>datafiles over your Development DB, it doesn't work. And, as a bonus, it
>trashes your Development DB.
>
>Did I mention that we were having problems backing up Development (Tivoli,
>OmniBack, etc.)? Did I mention that I just got done writing triggers for
>three weeks and the only place they existed was in the Dev DB?
>
>Luckily, the SYSTEM tablespace was in the create DB script, which I DID
>edit
>before trashing the rest of the Dev DB, and I can recover the DB objects
>(like my triggers) sans data. And the data *should* be just development,
>right? I can only hope.
>
>REMEMBER, PEOPLE: BACKUP YOUR DATABASE AND *VERIFY* YOUR BACKUPS! AND NOT
>JUST YOUR PRODUCTION DATABASES, EITHER!
>
> "Payday came and with it beer."
> -- Rudyard Kipling
>
> http://www.execpc.com/~legoman
> Home of the Beer Ale Lager Lovers Society
>
>Rich Jesse System/Database Administrator/Society
>President
>Rich.Jesse_at_qtiworld.com Quad/Tech International, Sussex, WI USA
>
>
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