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Re:How I Fired Myself by chris_wot on Wednesday February 27, 2013 @03:39PM (#5294739)
Forget a prankster! What happens if the full RAID array fails that holds the database? No backups: dead company.
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Re:How I Fired Myself by amputect on Wednesday February 27, 2013 @06:37PM (#5295849)
Heck when you put it that way, this guy actually did them a FAVOR. He ONLY wiped out the User table. The company was able to learn the value of backups, and they had enough data left to be able to partially recover it from the remaining tables, which is much better than the worst case scenario.
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Re:How I Fired Myself by dsuth on Thursday February 28, 2013 @04:59AM (#5297980)
Do you think the company learned the value of backups, or do you think they learned to blame junior devs for fuckups? Sounds like they learned nothing, because no attempt was made to determine the root cause.
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