Re:RE: Rant

From: Rachel Carmichael <wisernet100_at_YAHOO.COM>
Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2002 18:13:32 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.0049EDCD.20020722181332@fatcity.com>

you betcha.

okay, I'll tell a story on myself. I really am usually very careful about doing something that is a sweeping change without checking either the directory I'm in or doing it so that I have to confirm.

VAX/VMS, in my home directory. I could have SWORN I was in a temp directory, my login was supposed to be set up to tell me the directory I was in. It wasn't, 'cause I did the VMS equivalent of "rm *" and deleted EVERYTHING in my home directory (scripts, notes, login profile)

I very meekly called the data center and asked them to please please restore my directory from the prior night's backup tape. After they stopped laughing, they made it a rush. See, I used to buy them pizza if I had to ask them to work late and do extra stuff.

I know my limitations. I'm a pretty good general DBA but I ain't an SA

Rachel

• Gary Chambers <gc22_at_lucent.com> wrote:
  > > um, I'd schedule step 6 AFTER the backup finishes... I've seen
  > idiot
  > > SA's who start the backup then shutdown the machine or kill the
  > > process before it completes.....
  >
  > Yeah? And there's a good reason we SAs keep root privileges away
  > from
  > you DBAs. :-))
  >
  > Gary Chambers
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