RE: 1 minutes: best downtime story
- From: Mayen Shah <mshah@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: oracle-l <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2013 15:51:31 +0000
I have few and I am sure I am not the only one for these:
SA got page about filesystem being full...he saw files named as temp01.dbf
deleted temp files..big hiccup for critical application
Same SA saw file names redo1a_xxxx.log and decided to delete "logs" to make
some room. It took no time for us to rename all redo log files to xxxx.redo
Newbie to Oracle, my manager decided to refresh QA database from
production...pulled some document from Google, put production database in
backup mode and FTP files - only in wrong direction..rest is the history.
Mayen
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From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Herring Dave - dherri
Sent: Friday, March 15, 2013 11:06 AM
To: oracle-l
Subject: RE: 1 minutes: best downtime story
Man, these stories are AWESOME! Definitely made my day!
In college I was an operator for the campus system, a Univac 90/80. The
console was an all-in-one unit, meaning stand, keyboard, screen were all built
as a unit. Over time the keyboard got loose and if you accidently leaned on
it, the connection would short out and you lost all connectivity, which I
believe required a restart of the system.
Of course this was 1984 so rebooting each night was the norm. The startup
microcode was all on a cassette tape, which we always wanted to replace with a
Van Halen tape (now THAT would have been a good outage story!).
Dave Herring
DBA
Acxiom Corporation
EML dave.herring@xxxxxxxxxx
TEL +1 630.944.4762
3333 Finley, Downers Grove, IL 60515, U.S.A www.acxiom.com
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From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of bill thater
Sent: Friday, March 15, 2013 9:28 AM
To: Dustin Hayden; jeremy.schneider@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx; oracle-l
Subject: RE: 1 minutes: best downtime story
I was working at a teaching hospital and every night one of the vax systems and
it's database whent down. I would get a call and be able to login with no
problem. Staying one night I found the cleaning lady unplugging the vax to
plugin her vacuum. Problem solved:-)
sent from my Windows Phone
Bill"shrek" thater Oracle DBA
Shrekdba@xxxxxxxxx
"Oh boother said Pooh 'lock phasers on the hefalump. Mr.Piglet meet me in
transporter room three"
From: Dustin Hayden
Sent: 3/15/2013 9:03 AM
To: jeremy.schneider@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx; oracle-l
Subject: RE: 1 minutes: best downtime story US military email hub in Heidelberg
Germany out for most of a day.
Reason for outage was operator it the read only button on the disk drive
cabinet with his knee when he leaned up against it.
This one is my favorite but did not happen to me personally.
Over 3 million dollars worth of destroyed equipment in Communications Center in
Korea when someone asked "what does this lever by the door do?" as the pulled
it. The lever pulls the pins of 24 thermite grenades positioned over the
equipment in case the position is being overrun by N. Korean forces.
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From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jeremy Schneider
Sent: Thursday, March 14, 2013 5:07 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
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Jeremy Schneider
Pythian Consulting Group
Chicago
+1 312-725-9249
http://www.pythian.com
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