Jeremy Schneider, 14.03.2013 22:07:> 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. While testing the (quite complicated) migration of the data for a new version of our application, I had to copy data from production, wipe my test database and then import the production data into my test database. Well at one point I accidently deleted all the data from production instead of test. Luckily, because I had the data copied, "downtime" was only a couple of minutes until I restored everything. After that event, I implemented a "read-only" option in my SQL tool... -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l