I keep a webcam on my monitor, and when bad things happen, I post my reaction.
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When someone is bragging about having a huge database (several TB) and after asking some questions you find out that they simply failed at defining their data retention policy...
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When I finally make the switch to using Extended Events instead of Profiler dbareactions.com/2021/01/whe…
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When the new "DBA" says he isn't a newbie but doesn't know how to start a
service dbareactions.com/2021/01/whe…
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When a member of TechOps sends me a really detailed email about how to find
the SQL server uptime. dbareactions.com/2021/01/whe…
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When the DBA is finally added to a two month long email thread discussing a
data issue only to be asked "This shouldn't affect anything, right?" (HT
JoeStefanelli) dbareactions.com/2021/01/whe…
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The morning when we realized all of our system databases on a specific
production server became corrupt sometime the day before dbareactions.com/2021/01/the…
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Documenting the stored procedure business logic in our legacy data dbareactions.com/2021/01/doc…
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When we have to come up with a plan to downsize databases from an Exadata onto
an ODA and it involves Crisco, a cork, and duct tape dbareactions.com/2021/01/whe…
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When I get back from vacation to find 3 weeks of failing backups, the ops team
didn't think it seemed important enough to disturb me dbareactions.com/2021/01/whe…
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When one of our production applications is suddenly generating about 10x the
amount of CRUD transactions (and paging me out on Saturday because of filling
up our archive log file system) dbareactions.com/2021/01/whe…
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When the user says: "My program crashed", and I ask: "What are the details?",
and they say: "It crashed with an error" dbareactions.com/2021/01/whe…
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When I politely respond to code review comments about my stored procedures dbareactions.com/2021/01/whe…
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When the network guy's vernacular for "I don't know" is "sounds like a
database problem" dbareactions.com/2021/01/whe…
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Finding out that the same service account is being used by multiple instances
in production, QA, and dev dbareactions.com/2021/01/fin…
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When the consultant tells you that they want to load test their application.
In production. During business hours. dbareactions.com/2021/01/whe…
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