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How to win friends and influence them

PostPosted: 24 Apr 2013, 11:03
by Suff
NOT.

My administration client managed to knock out mail services fro approx. 5-10 thousand users for about 11 hours today.

Ooooops.

Dog House.

My permissions are revoked. I can't do most of my job.

Not a good week.

Re: How to win friends and influence them

PostPosted: 24 Apr 2013, 12:07
by Workingman
"Oooops" indeed, and it's only Wednesday lunchtime. :shock:

Keep calm........ and keep your head down. ;)

Re: How to win friends and influence them

PostPosted: 24 Apr 2013, 12:15
by Suff
The worst is over.

Now I shall have to work to their tune and that is ever less efficient than mine. So they are paying so it's their time. But it leaves less time for my own personal ruminations.

<sigh>

Back to work

Re: How to win friends and influence them

PostPosted: 28 Apr 2013, 09:27
by Weka
That's ok suff, we've all been there.
A colleague of mine once managed to delete the orders table in the prod database. Universe database. Non relational. Took the majority of us dbas and programmers (about 30 staff) a week to fix that wee oops

Re: How to win friends and influence them

PostPosted: 28 Apr 2013, 09:47
by cromwell
As they say, if you have never made a mistake you can't have been doing much work. Onwards and upwards, Suff.