Re: recyclebin

From: <hjr.pythian_at_gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 04 Oct 2007 20:05:06 -0700
Message-ID: <1191553506.977345.118910@y42g2000hsy.googlegroups.com>

On Oct 5, 12:40 pm, "Palooka" <nob..._at_nowhere.com> wrote:
> "Andrea"
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> > thanks for links!
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> Call me old fashioned by all means, but I cannot see the purpose of this
> recyclebin. If I drop an object, it is because it is neither wanted nor
> needed any more. Nowadays to keep things clean I must purge recyclebin as
> well. Seems pointless to me.
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> Palooka

Then you are remarkable in being the only human being on the planet who never makes a mistake.

For myself, having once dropped the most important 20GB+ table in a production database because I thought -no, knew, with absolute certainty, and 100% error- I was in the development database, I know from bitter personal experience that the recyclebin gives that 'are you sure?' moment that a lot of real human beings will find useful. Received on Thu Oct 04 2007 - 22:05:06 CDT