RE: OT - Getting fired for database oops

  • From: "Goulet, Richard" <Richard.Goulet@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <alever@xxxxxxxxx>, "Oracle Freelists.org" <Oracle-L@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 18 May 2009 08:04:13 -0400

Humm,  I doubt that a pint of beer was the culprit.  More likely a PS1 prompt 
that simply said '$'. 


Dick Goulet
Senior Oracle DBA
PAREXEL International

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Subject: RE: OT - Getting fired for database oops

Some years ago (it was 2002), after a pint of beer during lunch, I completely 
deleted a database , thinking I was working on another machine; database was 
little (less then 10g) but it was production: the restore took a couple of 
hours and there was no economic damage for that outage but, since then, I've 
*never* drink alcoholics during work....


Alessandro

>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
>________________________________
>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
>
>--
>Howard A. Latham
>


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