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Originally Posted by id10t
Well there was the time I deleted all the students from the course management system instead of just the ones that had dropped courses...
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Similar incident many years ago. My team were on the tail end of our fourth 100 hour work week building a prototype demo for a customer. Lots of configuration, data work, custom scripting, you name it. Trying to make the solution do something it wasn't designed to do, at a rate that was nearly impossible. Well I was working on multiple computers at once. Found that if we exported the database, dropped, it, then reimported, it would run a lot faster for a time. Much better than the usual reorg and re-index.
So I ran the export on one machine. Took a break, then sat down on the other and dropped the database. Turned to the other machine to rerun the create/import and to my horror - I didn't check that it executed. I had a typo. No export. The last one we took was about 100 hours ago. Sleep deprivation for that long does funny things.
I sat there staring at the screen mumbling "no no no" under my breath. As I was about to break the news - I remembered that we had an automated file backup that ran at 11:00PM. it was 11:30. It hadn't finished. I just hoped that it backed up the physical files before I had dropped them. It had. Restored it all and went home.
I didn't tell them until after the demonstration.