July 22, 2022 at 12:00 am
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Share Your Mistakes
July 22, 2022 at 12:42 pm
I remember a time about 50 years ago when I designed a script that deleted a file and then renamed the backup. It never works the second time.
Rick
Disaster Recovery = Backup ( Backup ( Your Backup ) )
July 25, 2022 at 9:24 pm
Ugh, I think I wrote that script a few times.
July 27, 2022 at 2:11 pm
What's it say about us that only two people are willing to admit to making mistakes?
I can think of several mistakes I've made just in the last week.
After month's of delay, moving a new SSIS package to production, then forgetting to have the new tables created.
Worked on writing some SQL for someone, set it up to sum on a field, and even added a Having statement to filter out those that sum to zero. Then the user decided they wanted to sum on a new column. And I forgot to change the having statement.
Copied a value from the results of a SQL statement, pasted that value in a new SQL code to filter the data. Then couldn't figure out why my results were wrong. Then figured out I copied the wrong value in to filter the data.
That's just a few, I'm sure there are more. None where major and easily fixed.
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July 27, 2022 at 2:22 pm
I was hoping for me. Certainly, it's possible some people were busy and didn't take the time. Others might read this days later, so who knows.
I make mistakes regularly. Probably every week. I sometimes misword or mis-check an answer to a question here on the site. I sent the wrong query to someone last week. SELECT, so not a big deal, but had to apologize. Plenty more for me to choose from.
July 27, 2022 at 2:36 pm
Well, here we go again. Over a few days I spent about three hours attempting to set up a new Chromecast device on a second tv. Kept getting an error saying no internet availalbe. I was getting ready to call tech support when I noticed my cell phone couldn't connect to my network either.
Then last evening while trying to connect with the phone, I realized that I had changed the password.
But in the process I did discover that instead of paying the service provider monthly for a second box I can use their cell phone application to cast all the channels to the Chromecast device for a one-time cost of 29 bucks. Just have to make sure I'm using the internet instead of cellular data.
It is also amazing how many solutions I have come up with while reading novels on my Kindle.
The slogan I proposed for the last group of DBA's I worked with: "We may not be good, but we're slow".
Rick
Disaster Recovery = Backup ( Backup ( Your Backup ) )
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