Search


	Podcast:		voiceofthedba's podcast
	Episode:		The Right Connection
	Category:		Technology
	Duration:		00:03:45
	Publish Date:		2018-04-18 19:00:00
	Description:		Travis-CI had some staffers connect to the wrong database and truncate production tables. Needless to say this caused an outage and disrupted their business. Hopefully they didn't lose too many customers, but they certainly did not help their reputation. I'm sure there are more than a few customers trying to decide if they continue to trust the company or move their Continuous Integration (CI) processes to another platform. I've done this before. Not shut down a company, but I have actually truncated a production table by mistake. Well, not TRUNCATE, I mean, who runs that. But I have run a DELETE without a WHERE clause and killed a lookup table in a production database. Fortunately I had a copy of the table elsewhere and could rebuild it in minutes. Only a few customers had their work interrupted and only for a portion of our system. The point is that I've been a very good DBA, with a lot of success and experience, and I still make mistakes. Read the rest of The Right Connection
	Total Play:		0