Re: slightly off topic - "break" a database

From: DA Morgan <damorgan_at_psoug.org>
Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2005 12:17:05 -0700
Message-ID: <1125083777.134840@yasure>

Chuck wrote:

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> Mark D Powell wrote:
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>>You should find a book on business ethics and read it.
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>>You might also want to find a book on humor. It might help you develop
>>a better since of humor.
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>>Finally if you have paid any attention to the posts on this board you
>>should have noticed that the majority of helpful people on this board
>>use their real name to sign their posts.
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>>IMHO -- Mark D Powell --
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> Lighten up. Everyone plays an occasional trick on someone. (-:

A trick is going into Product User Profile and disabling SELECT.

Trashing the system tablespace is not a trick.

If you don't know the difference then I would describe the situation as not knowing the difference between punching someone in the arm and hitting them with a baseball bat. One is purely destructive.

The friend, hopefully smart enough to become EX-friend, might well go home, not realize what happened, and do substantial damage trying to fix the problem.

To repeat my position: This was not a harmless trick. It was at best ill-advised and at worst malicious.

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Daniel A. Morgan
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Received on Fri Aug 26 2005 - 14:17:05 CDT