Half a Million Dollar AIX system kept having main system drive failures costing the Electric Utility who owned the Nuclear Plant undergoing its 18 month Maintenance Outage about One-Hundred Thousand dollars a day in delay costs. Cause: 1 25 cent chip on the hot-swap carriage the disk was mounted in. -----Original Message----- From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jeremy Schneider Sent: Thursday, March 14, 2013 4:07 PM To: oracle-l Subject: 1 minutes: best downtime story 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 This e-mail, including attachments, may include confidential and/or proprietary information, and may be used only by the person or entity to which it is addressed. If the reader of this e-mail is not the intended recipient or his or her authorized agent, the reader is hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this e-mail is prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender by replying to this message and delete this e-mail immediately. -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l