I have had to wear many hats in my life as an ORACLE DBA. But I don't
seem to recall having to pump water out a basement. Best of luck to
you, your company, Prague and your country!
pagesflames_at_usa.net (Dusan Bolek) wrote in message news:<1e8276d6.0208150250.363609f8_at_posting.google.com>...
> "Paul Brewer" <paul_at_paul.brewers.org.uk> wrote in message news:<3d5b4de5_1_at_mk-nntp-1.news.uk.worldonline.com>...
>
> > Nothing but admiration for you. You had the foresight to put one node
> > upstairs?
>
>
> No, both are situated in basement. In fact is very difficult (from
> building construction point of view) to have big computer server site
> elsewhere than in basement.
> We have two sites with about 15km distance between them. One is
> situated in centre of Prague and another one in surrounding area of
> Prague. The one outside of centre is really high above the river
> (water stopped about three km from us). Even that one in centre was
> not damaged by river (which is very fortunate, because there is
> computer equipment worth hundreds of millions USD), but elektricity
> supply was switch off and it will be very difficult to keep gasoline
> generators in work for several days. Not mentioning that would not be
> a good idea to keep support people near flooded area where all traffic
> infrastructure was flooded or even destroyed.
> So we were doing our business using just one site, IT was not fully
> functional, but crucial services were kept running. So everything is
> OK.
> Maybe, OK is not a good phrase to describe situation here. Our company
> (and also me as personal) suffered only minor losses, but overall
> damage in Prague and in whole country is extreme.
>
> --
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>
> Dusan Bolek, Ing.
> Oracle team leader
>
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Received on Thu Aug 15 2002 - 12:54:18 CDT
