your biggest **** up..

_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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What school was it? Email in trust ;)
 
Heavy night out, woke up the next morning with a wet laptop.
Big mistake, lost loads of stuff.
Thankfully replaced with an upgraded model on insurance, but the hassle :/

Talking to the girl who wasn't even my girlfriend on the phone every night when I was at Oxford for my Uni interview, should have been revising and researching of out socialising and getting to know the other applicants and make an impression on the students they put there to spy on you and report back to the lecturers.
 
_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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I deleted a hosting providers control panel database which hosted all their data for apache configs and such, when I was attempting to rectify the fact they had no dev environment.

Luckily the backup was working and was restored in under an hour.

After probably feeling somewhat similar to you, I gave myself a kick up the backside and got back to what I intended to do. Developer caused downtime went down massively from quite a lot, quite often to pretty much never.

It didn't really have that big of an impact, despite the owner making claims to contrary, but dropping a database in error did make me look and feel like a complete nupty.

Don't worry though, mistakes happen thats what they have backups f... oh yeah :p
 
About 6 years ago I was changing a password for a user, unfortunately I didn't add their username after the passwd command. I realised my mistake but instead of typing in a new password and then changing it back I hit a ton of keys on my keyboard. I did it again when it prompted for confirmation. It came back and said they didn't match, did it again and I got the same message, 3rd time I typed them both in but didn't look at the message. I then changed the correct users password and then quit. A few hours later someone shouts over asking if anyone had changed the root password.

That sinking feeling hit me and I realised that by freak coincidence I mashed the same 8+ letters on my keyboard on the 3rd attempt :(

To make matters worse when trying to restore we found that the tape drive failed! We had to wait over a week for a replacement :D All sorted in the end and it was a good job we tested the tape drive that day.

Learnt a good lesson though :)
 
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I polled a few years worth of credit card transactions from one of our customers by mistake. Duplicated around £600,000 worth of transactions. That took me a few months to get fully sorted and the customers customers were very angry what with paying overdraft fees etc. Pretty sure they sued the company I was working for for damages but I had quit by then.

In my defence the transactions shouldn't have been there to be polled, the software shouldn't have allowed it and the banks shouldn't have processed them. Still happened though.
 
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