RE: OT - Getting fired for database oops

  • From: John Hallas <John.Hallas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: "howard.latham@xxxxxxxxx" <howard.latham@xxxxxxxxx>, "cjnewman@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <cjnewman@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 18 May 2009 10:45:00 +0100

I do know of a DBA who deleted the test database ready for a refresh from 
production. The 578 datafiles took a long time to delete but slightly longer 
(36 hours)  to recover once he realised that he was logged onto production.

The company got a £1.8 million fine for the outage  - government supplier etc

He kept his job though

John

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2009/5/15 Newman, Christopher 
<cjnewman@xxxxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:cjnewman@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>>
A colleague and I were just discussing DBA's getting fired for screwing
something up/failing to do something (Not for being generally poor
employees like showing up late, etc).  Neither of us had heard any
stories of either scenario.  I know we sometimes have slightly off topic
discussions on the list, so I was wondering if anyone would share any
stories.

Chris Newman
Database Specialist
AITS, University of Illinois
217-333-5429

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