Forehead-slapping moments

[toString]

Few days ago I ran the following on a well-known fuel-suppliers database...



Come a split-second realisation of what I'd done before seeing "7218 records updated" when I only was wanting one!

Yeah that's a killer that. All the others are just annoying things, but that one is 'cold sweat wanting to jump out the window' territory.

 

[Beansprout]

One of the silliest moments I've had is making a typo when killing a process and killing Apache by mistake. I wondered why the server load had shot down

 

[lokkers]

Yeah that's a killer that. All the others are just annoying things, but that one is 'cold sweat wanting to jump out the window' territory.

I always comment out my updates and delete like such:

/*
Update blah set 'wibble' = 'cheese' etc...
*/

I'm very careful with my SQL I am

 

[robmiller]

Yeah that's a killer that. All the others are just annoying things, but that one is 'cold sweat wanting to jump out the window' territory.

Along with

rm -rf / home/foo/bar/lol

Hmm, this is taking a long time... wait, is that a space? Oh god oh god *mashes Ctrl + C*

 

[Inquisitor]

Along with

rm -rf / home/foo/bar/lol

Hmm, this is taking a long time... wait, is that a space? Oh god oh god *mashes Ctrl + C*

Aye, that's a good one