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What's a forgivable mistake?

Most of us try our best to do the best job they can each day at work. We never try to make mistakes. We might be lazy at times, or avoid some work, but we don't try to do anything incorrectly. We might shortcut something, hoping a partial completion or quick patch is enough to satisfy a requirement, but we don't actively do things incorrectly.

At least I hope that's the case for all of you. I assume there are some BOFH people out there, but they are few and far between.

That being said, we're human. We will have accidents, we'll do something without thinking, or we'll click (or type) the wrong item. Sometimes these errors go unnoticed until we can correct them. Perhaps they go unnoticed for years, and we completely forget about them.

Other little "whoops" mistakes have widespread consequences. I've seen incorrect firewall rules deployed that took down entire swaths of a business. There are incorrect deployments by developers, putting out old, or even future, code that breaks things down. DBAs might change, or even truncate, the wrong data at times. That's something I've certainly been guilty of in the past.

In your job, are there mistakes you make that are forgivable? I'd hope that most are, and you don't worry about certain tasks affecting your employment status. I'm sure there are potential mistakes that might require termination, but I'd hope these are repeated mistakes and not one time events.

Let us know today what mistakes might be forgivable in your organization. These might not be something you've done, but perhaps something you've witnessed. How much mercy does your management have for the humans trying to manage their database systems?

Steve Jones - SSC Editor

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 Question of the Day

Today's question (by Steve Jones - SSC Editor):

 

The Schema Name

I gave this code to a junior DBA to create a new user:
CREATE USER SSISProcess WITH DEFAULT_SCHEMA = etl
We have some objects in the [etl] schema, but some of our code doesn't seem to create new objects in this schema correctly. We want to verify that the user can correctly see the schema. Someone logs in as the user, SSISProcess, and they want to check the default schema. What should they run to get this?  

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 Yesterday's Question of the Day (by sergey.gigoyan)

Database Backup Types

Which statements are correct about the SQL Server database backup types?

  1. A Transaction Log backup contains all changes made after the previous transaction log backup.
  2. Each differential backup contains only the changes made after the previous differential backup.
  3. Each differential backup contains all changes made after the previous full backup.
  4. A copy-only full backup can be a base for differential backups.
  5. Each full backup contains only the changes made after the previous full backup.

Answer: 1, 3

Explanation: The transaction log backups contain only the changes made since the last log backup. Differential backups consist of changes since the last full backup, not differential. A copy only backup does not affect the differential bitmap. Ref:

http://dbprofi.com/sql-server-backup-types-vs-oracle-backup-types/  

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