Re: 1 minutes: best downtime story
From: Gints Plivna <gints.plivna_at_gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2013 16:28:39 +0200
Message-ID: <CAN2wOq2xwupZ_FxiG78_4bsdP5hNhh3vO3PyEh2n9nHsnb7xjg_at_mail.gmail.com>
My wife is developing payment card soft and told a story he had with her customer (a bank) in one of former Soviet republics in Caucasus. Oracle administrator was a complete newbie, a few months before he worked as a cook. So they had quite a few funny conversations, but the best one was when the administrator wrote an e-mail "Sorry, cannot do anything now, database fell". So after a couple of hours they asked whether the DB was restarted. As a result it turned out that server physically had fallen down on the floor and they needed a day or so to replace physically broken parts. Gints
Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2013 16:28:39 +0200
Message-ID: <CAN2wOq2xwupZ_FxiG78_4bsdP5hNhh3vO3PyEh2n9nHsnb7xjg_at_mail.gmail.com>
My wife is developing payment card soft and told a story he had with her customer (a bank) in one of former Soviet republics in Caucasus. Oracle administrator was a complete newbie, a few months before he worked as a cook. So they had quite a few funny conversations, but the best one was when the administrator wrote an e-mail "Sorry, cannot do anything now, database fell". So after a couple of hours they asked whether the DB was restarted. As a result it turned out that server physically had fallen down on the floor and they needed a day or so to replace physically broken parts. Gints
2013/3/14 Jeremy Schneider <jeremy.schneider_at_ardentperf.com>
> 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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