Mistakes at work?

I've managed to wipe a complete DB using a software patch before, that was a bit was a bit embarrassing. As luck would have it i had it on a tape from the night before. So its still a bit of a epic fail mind.
 
I was working on two sql machines (different clients)

I pushed a master set of data into the wrong one, meaning they had thousands of random new entries, I actually threw up when I realised!

The backup I made was easily restored :cool:



When I was 13, in my washing up job, had been working for 14 days straight, really tired, I dropped a dish washer rack, containing about 80% of the mains plates. Then my boss punched his cooking bench top so hard, he broke his hand in two places!
 
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My friend was hosting a database for a large publising company,

late one night he needed a spare drive so stupidly he pulled a drive from the servers raid system... system stayed up no issue...

(a stupid thing to do anyway)

As the system had a hot spare he knew there would not be an issue, however he needed another drive so he decided to pull the hot spare...

However the drive he pulled was not the hot spare,

Dell support said there was nothing that could be done, so time to restore from backup

he then realised the backups had not run since the system was put in 3 months previously.

WHen he rang me at 3am he sounded a bit concerned!! <and upset>
 
On site at a large call center I walked into the server room and tapped the mouse pad to flick the screen save off on the database server, I tapped the mouse pad the the server blue screened..

As no one had seen me go in I walked back down to reception and called my contact to say I had arrived (I thougth there was not way on this earth they would believe I had not done anything to cause hte issue - other than tap the mouse pad).

He was very pleased I had jsut arrived as they had a serious system issue all the telesales people had jsut been kicked out of the database!!!
 
Wizardskills said:
I once used "exists" instead of "in" in the where clause of an SQL update statement once. Chaos shorty ensued :D
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hahaha. i did a very similar thing with a find/replace script i had written to change a filepath in about 3000 lotus notes .ini files. people soon started complaining about notes/home folders being slow...

turns out that i hadnt written it to use a filepath that included the users specific username. i had, in fact, pointed all 3000 users at one single home folder :eek:

one VERY rapid edit and rerun of the script later and all was well.

there was also the time i accidentally shut down a file/print sever in the middle of month end, and it wouldnt come back up for about an hour because some legacy print queues were causing bother with the failover process. in my defence, i still have no idea why the confirmation dialogue was turned off...
 
edscdk said:
On site at a large call center I walked into the server room and tapped the mouse pad to flick the screen save off on the database server, I tapped the mouse pad the the server blue screened..

As no one had seen me go in I walked back down to reception and called my contact to say I had arrived (I thougth there was not way on this earth they would believe I had not done anything to cause hte issue - other than tap the mouse pad).

He was very pleased I had jsut arrived as they had a serious system issue all the telesales people had jsut been kicked out of the database!!!
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Your name suggests you work for EDS*?





Electronic Disaster Service!
 
Back in 1999 I was the webmaster for a popular online betting site and accidentally uploaded incorrect odds for something. I can't remember the specifics, but it was definitely not in favour of the company!
Cue the Italian owner running up the stairs and losing it big time with me. That was fun.
 
Managed to accidentally shutdown the main finance cluster for a utility company (oops) .... fortunately it was 2am and my boss was understanding over it even though he'd had to spend the previous 1.5hrs coaxing it back to life prior to that, fortunately it came back ok afterwards.

The other time that springs to mind wasn't my fault as such but the SAN team had managed to incorrectly present the same LUN to two HPUX servers, I went to use it on the production box but pvcreate wouldn't work on the LUN as it had LVM headers on it already ... so I assumed that they had just represented a previously used LUN without formating it first .... so forced the command, cue 50GB out the middle of a development database disappearing :( .... fortunately (a) it wasn't the other way around and (b) it was the SAN teams fault for mis-presenting the LUN to two servers :)
 
i blame an early start but today was about to set off to morcambe to do deliveries, reversed out of parking spot straight into the front of another truck, got out to check it and it was fine(was only going about 2 mph) so left it. got back to have boss come over asking did i have a bump this morning, i said i grazed a truck but didnt do any damage but it turns out i put a hairline crack in the bumper that will cause something to happen( which i didnt listen to) but its going to cost £700 for a new bumper.
 
Nash said:
What does that mean in this context?
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It's a group of clinically similar proceedures which are grouped together for the purposes of apportioning cost to proceedures etc. In this context it means that it would be a pretty interesting code if the proceedures involved cost £7500 :p
 
[TW]Fox;15790837 said:
It's a group of clinically similar proceedures which are grouped together for the purposes of apportioning cost to proceedures etc. In this context it means that it would be a pretty interesting code if the proceedures involved cost £7500 :p
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But it was over 8 hours and not 1 hour.

About 2 months ago the cost was £4500 for keeping a Consultant away from their job for 3 hours.
 
Ooh, another fun one was an ancient ASP site I worked on many years ago, part of it required a bulk email thing to various addresses in a database.

This was fine, except I forgot the objRs.MoveNext call in the loop that did the mailouts. The first result in the DB recieved several thousand emails... >_<
 
utajoker said:
i blame an early start but today was about to set off to morcambe to do deliveries, reversed out of parking spot straight into the front of another truck, got out to check it and it was fine(was only going about 2 mph) so left it. got back to have boss come over asking did i have a bump this morning, i said i grazed a truck but didnt do any damage but it turns out i put a hairline crack in the bumper that will cause something to happen( which i didnt listen to) but its going to cost £700 for a new bumper.
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Wow at 2mph you managed to cause a lot of damage :eek:
 
I managed to remove the network drivers from a terminal server supporting three sites while it was live a couple days ago! Realised what I'd done as my remote desktop session ended.. Luckily there is a guy on site who kinda knows what he is doing so I downloaded the network drivers to another server there and told him to copy them across and reinstall them on the TS server.. I still felt like a right idiot though! :D
 
Two engineers were talking, one says to the other, 'I got the sack from my last job for one of my measurements being out by twenty thou'.
The other says, 'That's a bit harsh, who were you working for?'
'Barclays Bank'
 
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