My worst day: Taking a brief downtime event to move a database from one disk volume to another. Mid-day, so obviously the only backups in place were from the previous night. It was a necessary event I had to do RIGHT NOW because of disk capacity issues.
“I don’t need to take an extra backup of this, I’ve done this DB move operation a ton of times before”. You can easily guess how that ended….. In a rush to get things done, I accidently did one command out of order and suddenly realized that yeah, I had created the new DB container in the new destination, but hadn’t copied over the original CONTENTS before first wiping out the source. And I was so cocky about not needing to take the extra 60 minutes to get a backup first. I had to go into the office area and explain to everyone that I had just deleted ALL of their morning’s work. And that they would have to re-key everything from midnight the previous day forward.
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