Re:How I Fired Myself
by aidos on Wednesday February 27, 2013 @12:02PM
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Ah ha ha ah yeah.... I've done that.
Something similar anyway (was deleting rows from production and hadn't selected the where clause of my query before I ran it).
It was on my VERY FIRST DAY of a new job.
Fortunately they were able to restore a several hours old copy from a sync to dev but the wasn't a real plan in place for dealing with such a situation. There could have just as easily not been a recent backup.
This was in a company with 1,000 employees (dev team of 50) and millions in turnover. I've worked other places that are in such a precarious position too.
At least my boss at the time took responsibility for it - new dev (junior), first day, production db = bad idea.
Something similar anyway (was deleting rows from production and hadn't selected the where clause of my query before I ran it).
It was on my VERY FIRST DAY of a new job.
Fortunately they were able to restore a several hours old copy from a sync to dev but the wasn't a real plan in place for dealing with such a situation. There could have just as easily not been a recent backup.
This was in a company with 1,000 employees (dev team of 50) and millions in turnover. I've worked other places that are in such a precarious position too.
At least my boss at the time took responsibility for it - new dev (junior), first day, production db = bad idea.