RE: 1 minutes: best downtime story
Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2013 11:26:10 -0400
Message-ID: <68F9DD51BF61E943BFA45D744048A7A73108D0D695_at_nbp-ex01.proteus-technologies.com>
Years ago... early 90's maybe?... Sun servers had a big blue button at the top of the cabinet. A goup was going through the computer room on a tour. One of the guys at the back of the line, pushed the button and asked the tour guide "hey what does button this do?". It reboots the server. Sun got rid of the blue buttons shortly after that...
:)
p.s. why are the cut-ups always at the back of the line?
From: oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org [oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org] On Behalf Of Herring Dave - dherri [Dave.Herring_at_acxiom.com] Sent: Friday, March 15, 2013 11:05 AM
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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
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Sent: Friday, March 15, 2013 9:28 AM
To: Dustin Hayden; jeremy.schneider_at_ardentperf.com; 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_at_Gmail.com
"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_at_ardentperf.com; 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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[mailto:oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org] 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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