Another one (thanks Brian Pardy for his story which reminded me of this) A UK utility company had one of its data centres in a lower ground floor, with a loading bay outside. Delivery truck's brakes failed on the down ramp, and the fire doors - though designed to open outwards only - unsurprisingly proved a poor match against the accumulated momentum of the incoming 20 ton truck. Regards Nigel On 14 March 2013 21:07, Jeremy Schneider <jeremy.schneider@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote: > Hey all - > > I'm writing a paper about top causes of downtime. As one component > of research, I'd like to get some input from you! > > One minute, two sentences. First sentence: describe what went down. > Second sentence: describe why. (I have to categorize all of these.) > Everyone should have at least one downtime story so I'm hoping for a > lot of feedback! > > Answer about any technology - database, operating system, etc. > > Thanks! > > -Jeremy > > > -- > Jeremy Schneider > Pythian Consulting Group > Chicago > > +1 312-725-9249 > http://www.pythian.com > > -- > //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l > > > -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l