little and often keeps you honest.
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Niall Litchfield
Oracle DBA
Audit Commission UK
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"Connor McDonald" <connor_mcdonald_at_yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:3D5C07AE.4C24_at_yahoo.com...
> Niall Litchfield wrote:
> >
> > "Dusan Bolek" <pagesflames_at_usa.net> 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.
> > >
> > > --
> > > _________________________________________
> > >
> > > Dusan Bolek, Ing.
> > > Oracle team leader
> >
> > An excellent story, and one I hope you will write up when the time is
> > appropriate. In the mean time best wishes from England where we
habitually
> > complain if there is two inches of rain.
> >
> > --
> > Niall Litchfield
> > Oracle DBA
> > Audit Commission UK
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>
> yeah but its 2 inches every friggin day of the year!
>
> signed
> disgruntled uk-based-aussie
> --
> ==============================
> Connor McDonald
>
> http://www.oracledba.co.uk
>
> "Some days you're the pigeon, some days you're the statue..."
Received on Thu Aug 15 2002 - 16:24:33 CDT
