your biggest **** up..

_Jimlad_

_Jimlad_

_Jimlad_

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Well on Friday i deleted an entire schools financial database, and after spending money in data recovery and 3 days solid work.... it was confirmed that the SQL database is unrecoverable

In my defence,

the school was required to backup everyday and had not did it once in 5 years.

the database files were installed in a area solely for the schools information management system (which i support for the LEA) (and created)

but after my manger just sent the email to the head saying all hope was lost i just want the ground to swallow me up :(

what's your biggest blunder?
 
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_Jimlad_ said:
Well on Friday i deleted an entire schools financial database, and after spending money in data recovery and 3 days solid work.... it was confirmed that the SQL database is unrecoverable

In my defence,

the school was required to backup everyday and had not did it once in 5 years.

the database files were installed in a area solely for the schools information management system (which i support for the LEA) (and created)

but after my manger just sent the email to the head saying all hope was lost i just want the ground to swallow me up :(

what's your biggest blunder?
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Ouch. What's your position in the school though. If you are in an administrative role surely you should have bought this to the managers attention as that in my mind would bring up HUGE red flags.

Sorry to rub salt into your wound.

But indeed it sounds more of a managerial error (or by Manager do you mean Head Master).

My biggest mistake?

Waiting so long before deciding to go to University. Have to live at the other end of the country to attend rather than deciding and applying earlier to go to my local Uni.

I don't see this as a mistake now however. It's a great University and is progressing rapidly.

/Johnathan
 
i work for the local authority supporting 90 odd schools i was onsite uninstalling old SQL 2005 databases we no longer use, hiding in one of these installs was a the entire finance system, should not have been there or using our SQL install but i still pressed delete on the folder :(
 
Spotted a fault on a camshaft at work (which means all camshafts being made from that machine will have that fault if not rectified). Ignored it thought 'it'll be ok I've seen much worse'. I was only new then and I didn't realise a step on the journals was a big deal. Find out late on in the shift someone else discovers it and they check the inventory of the camshafts produced that day, all of them scrapped and a whole shift wasted (no idea how much that would have cost the company with the expense of staff, running costs, raw materials, missing targets having to put on Saturday overtime etc etc).
 
_Jimlad_ said:
i work for the local authority supporting 90 odd schools i was onsite uninstalling old SQL 2005 databases we no longer use, hiding in one of these installs was a the entire finance system, should not have been there or using our SQL install but i still pressed delete on the folder :(
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Then surely it's the schools problem. It's up to them to make sure all THEIR data is safe. That's if I'm getting the full story ;)

/Johnathan
 
Not caring at A-level and thus being stuck in this unbelievably boring and pointless course when I wish I was doing history :(
 
Army Application Forms.

Have you ever suffered From Shin Splints?
Me "Better do the right thing and tell the truth"
***Ticks Yes.***

Do you wear Orthotics?
Me "I do so ill tell the truth again so they know Ive taken care of my Shin Splints"
*** Ticks Yes***

---1 Month Later.---

Sorry you have been declared Medicaly unfit, Until you can Improve otherwise

---Goes and Prove otherwise which cost a bit---

"Sorry, As a result of yout wearing orthotics ypou will have to wait 12 months before we can declare you fit"


Me "**** SAKE!" :mad:

Should have lied from the start! :p
And now im Medical fit again the job i want wont having an intake until next year!

The moral of the Story is always lie on medical forms!
 
02goswej said:
Then surely it's the schools problem. It's up to them to make sure all THEIR data is safe. That's if I'm getting the full story ;)

/Johnathan
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yes that is true. but its like someone coming round your house then deleting some stuff and saying you should have have a backup :D
 
_Jimlad_ said:
yes that is true. but its like someone coming round your house then deleting some stuff and saying you should have have a backup :D
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...and so they should t'is just good practice I have about 3 different backups of over 1 tb of data:
DVD, Internal H.D.D & External H.D.D

the worst to create was the DVD backup.
 
_Jimlad_ said:
but after my manger just sent the email to the head saying all hope was lost i just want the ground to swallow me up :(
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I would have emailed asking for their backup, if no backup blame them...simples

I once plugged in a VOIP phone after an office move, turns out the office staff had already attempted to do this. As it had 2 ethernet ports, one for the wall socket and one for the computer i.e. socket=>phone=>computer to save wall sockets. When I get there I see they had already plugged in the computer to the phone (so I thought) and so I plugged in the network to the phone. Turns out it was plugged in socket=>phone=>socket and caused a loop back in the network and caused all the HP switches to overload and restart lol

MW
 
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