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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