[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

>>kick the power cable to your server...
>>
> 
> Could work.
> 
> There a story (urban legend?) about a Sybase server at a brokerage house in
> NYC that would not return correct results for an important SQL statement.
> They'd been working on it for weeks with Sybase.


don't know about that one, but i was involved in one where the backup 
wouldn't run at night.  i'd run the thing in the morning and it worked 
fine but it wouldn't work at night.  seems the cleaning crew needed 
another plug to vacuum the server room and just unplugged that server 
every night, then plugged it back in when they left.  and the SA on the 
box couldn't tell me that was happening.;-)



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