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Maybe he should have tested his SQL statement first.

Jim Horn

message: 4
date: Fri, 21 Aug 2009 06:36:56 +0200
from: "Birgitta Hauser" <Hauser@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
subject: AW: Modernizing applications

Hi,

some years ago we had to pay a lot of money, because of the lack of
journaling and commitment control (and because my colleague did not save
the
data before updating them with SQL).

Friday evening, 5.30 pm we were already prepared for the week-end. Then a
client called! "Could you please remove these blabla records from my stock
of inventory."
No problem, my colleague logged in and typed the SQL statement, but missed
something or wrote > instead of < or something like this. Immediately
after
pressing enter he saw his mistake, but even though he cancelled the query
immediately a few hundred rows were deleted.

... the only way to restore the data was to take stock! Fortunately it was
Friday and the client normally did not work at the week end!
... but in either way we had to pay for the stocktaking (which was not
very
cheap).

With journaling and commitment control, the data could have been resettet
with a simple ROLLBACK.

Mit freundlichen Gr??en / Best regards

Birgitta Hauser




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