Not work related, but on my self-hosted stuff I have had plenty of “419243 rows updated” moments when I forgot what database server I was connected to.
Same idea: restore a backup to the automatically selected database in the drop down instead of a new database (Thanks Sql Server 2000 entreprise manager!)
Overwrote a client production database that the sysadmin couldn’t find any backup for, two hours before I went on a two week vacation.
Not work related, but on my self-hosted stuff I have had plenty of “419243 rows updated” moments when I forgot what database server I was connected to.
Call it “testing your backup strategy”.
Same idea: restore a backup to the automatically selected database in the drop down instead of a new database (Thanks Sql Server 2000 entreprise manager!)
Overwrote a client production database that the sysadmin couldn’t find any backup for, two hours before I went on a two week vacation.
Fun times.
A coworker once did a bad pull request and knocked down all the Canadian servers. God bless