2y ago

I think I leave early today

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Don't call it "accidental database deletion". Call it "unannounced live exercise of backup procedure".
- Either that or rapid exodus from the country
Sometimes I dream of getting fired for accidentally doing shit like this. Sweet relief...
- Good companies wouldn't fire someone for this because:
  There should be processes in place to prevent this, or recover from this, anyway. It's a team/department failure and you would just be the straw that broke the camel's back.
  They now know you've experienced this and will hopefully know to never do it again. Bringing in someone else could just reintroduce the issue.
DB admins rawdogging the prod postgres on a Friday evening.
You just triggered my PTSD
Embrace it as you are now officially a developer
- At some point this is just a rite of passage
- If it happens, it's a lack of controls, and, at least mostly, not your fault
I did something like that once, I wasn't very good at SQL but I needed some data, so I logged in into the production database and run my SELECT queries, I didn't change anything so everything was good, or so I thought.
I created a cross product over tables with millions of entries and when it didn't respond I thought it was odd but it was time to go home anyway. On the way home they called me and asked what I did. They had to restart the DB server because once the cache timed out one application after another started failing.

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