TravisDBA (1/13/2011)
"So plan to fail and you'll be better off." and I would add "and have your notifications processes well in place so that your teams are notified in a timely matter when this does happen.":-D
Perhaps it should be 'plan for failure...'. 'Plan to fail' sounds too much like the system is expected to fail. Failures will happen, but the system needs to tolerate failure.
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-- FORTRAN manual for Xerox Computers --