RE: OT moment of doubt

Which is why I refuse to name the online redos with a ".log" extension...

My SF-10 moment* was when I was showing the new guy around VMS. I showed him the true power of DCL and how I had smartly aliased the "delete" command so I couldn't accidentally delete files I didn't mean to. I showed him VMS' Autogen, which is the system tuner for VMS and then decided to demo my smart aliases. On PRODUCTION. In the SYS$LIBRARY directory (think of /usr/lib on unix or C:\Windows\system32 on Winders).

Funny thing about VMS' Autogen: the first thing it does is get rid of all your aliases, so as not to contaminate it's own processes. Yup, I had started to delete the system libraries, including the shared library for Interbase (our base of data at the time) before I hit <CTRL-C>. DB crashed and brought down ERP with it. One filled-shorts frantic call to the Backup/Recovery guy later and we were OK.

The company paid for my "education" that day...

Rich

• -- "S" is for one of the nether muscles Jared inferred, "F" is for "Factor".

-----Original Message-----
From: Stephane Faroult
Sent: Wednesday, June 15, 2005 1:35 PM
Cc: Oracle-L_at_freelists.org
Subject: Re: OT moment of doubt

Perhaps it would be safer to give another extension to database files on

really important servers to avoid mistakes. Something like *.mpg for=20 instance.

SF

Joe wrote:

>What would you call that moment in time after you do "rm *.dbf" on all
>your database files, where you suddenly panic about whther you're on
>the right server or not?
>
>This happens to me all the time, even after checking, even after 17
>yrs of DBA-ing. Kinda like that feeling you get when your chair starts
>to tip over backwards but you catch yourself.
>
>:P
>
>Joe

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