Comments on: Database bullet dodging and lessons learned http://www.tntechnohermit.com/2009/04/12/database-bullet-dodging-and-lessons-learned/ Random Thoughts of a Techno-Hermit Mon, 30 Jan 2012 21:07:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Andy Sandefer http://www.tntechnohermit.com/2009/04/12/database-bullet-dodging-and-lessons-learned/comment-page-1/#comment-226 Andy Sandefer Thu, 30 Apr 2009 14:02:53 +0000 http://dan.skaggsfamily.ws/?p=182#comment-226 What's even more fun is when you mod a system and the users don't catch any problems in QA testing and then a few months later you get to write SQL code to undo a data centric problem caused by your mod! @Dan We've all done things like this. The only thing that I can tell you is that if it is only an update on a few tables that in addition to a backup I will often export the table data of the affected tables into a format that I can either easily re-import or even code against if things go bad. I've been at this for 12 years and something very similar happened to recently - don't beat yourself up! Or maybe we both just suck! LOL What’s even more fun is when you mod a system and the users don’t catch any problems in QA testing and then a few months later you get to write SQL code to undo a data centric problem caused by your mod!

@Dan
We’ve all done things like this. The only thing that I can tell you is that if it is only an update on a few tables that in addition to a backup I will often export the table data of the affected tables into a format that I can either easily re-import or even code against if things go bad. I’ve been at this for 12 years and something very similar happened to recently – don’t beat yourself up!
Or maybe we both just suck!
LOL

]]> By: Aaron Longnion http://www.tntechnohermit.com/2009/04/12/database-bullet-dodging-and-lessons-learned/comment-page-1/#comment-217 Aaron Longnion Tue, 28 Apr 2009 07:12:20 +0000 http://dan.skaggsfamily.ws/?p=182#comment-217 heh, we've all done things like that, even when we're veteran enough to know better. ;-) Glad it wasn't worse. Take care. heh, we’ve all done things like that, even when we’re veteran enough to know better. ;-) Glad it wasn’t worse. Take care.

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