http://facility9.com/2008/11/07/whoops-the-sql-dba-quiz Jeremiah Peschka's ruminations on sql, ruby, c# and other things Thu, 11 Mar 2010 16:05:37 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://facility9.com/2008/11/07/whoops-the-sql-dba-quiz#comment-64 facility9 » Links for the week Sun, 09 Nov 2008 16:42:21 +0000 http://facility9.com/?p=82#comment-64 [...] blog about their mistakes. Chris Shaw started this, Brent Ozar called me out to admit my mistakes. Other notables involved include Jason Massie, David Stein, and [...] [...] blog about their mistakes. Chris Shaw started this, Brent Ozar called me out to admit my mistakes. Other notables involved include Jason Massie, David Stein, and [...]

]]> http://facility9.com/2008/11/07/whoops-the-sql-dba-quiz#comment-63 Brian Dunzweiler Fri, 07 Nov 2008 15:03:46 +0000 http://facility9.com/?p=82#comment-63 Ah yes, the delete without a where clause has gotten me a couple of times too. Touching on replication, I temporarily took down our production merge replication (SQL 2000) on accident a couple of months back - about 12 hours earlier than scheduled. I was preparing the server for a replication shutdown and refresh that would occur overnight. In the preparation during business hours, I downloaded the slew of windows updates and missed the recent SQL security patch in the mix - the first time I had seen a SQL patch come through that pipeline. Well, that patch shuts down the service and updates the dlls and then restarts the service. The service restart was one thing, but the fact that it updated the replication dll version numbers prevented all subscribers from synching with the publisher. Thankfully, there was a clean uninstall program for this patch. I was about ready to pull out what little hair I have left. --Brian Ah yes, the delete without a where clause has gotten me a couple of times too. Touching on replication, I temporarily took down our production merge replication (SQL 2000) on accident a couple of months back – about 12 hours earlier than scheduled. I was preparing the server for a replication shutdown and refresh that would occur overnight. In the preparation during business hours, I downloaded the slew of windows updates and missed the recent SQL security patch in the mix – the first time I had seen a SQL patch come through that pipeline. Well, that patch shuts down the service and updates the dlls and then restarts the service. The service restart was one thing, but the fact that it updated the replication dll version numbers prevented all subscribers from synching with the publisher. Thankfully, there was a clean uninstall program for this patch. I was about ready to pull out what little hair I have left.
–Brian

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