Never a Doh! moment.

[Matthew Ross Walker]

Chris Carey wrote:
> My last DOH moment was when writing some SQL statements and I forgot
> the WHERE clause ...
> 
> DELETE FROM billing;
> 
> instead of
> 
> DELETE FROM billing WHERE id=123;
> 
> The first statement deletes every single record in the database table.
> I sure wont make that mistake again.

I did something very similar once. I was working on testing a script to
transform some data in an important table, so I was working with a copy
of the table, and truncating it after each run of the script.

This was all fine and dandy until I truncated the wrong copy. Of the
lineitems table. For an ecommerce system serving 50+ sites.

DOH.

Thank goodness we did nightly backups. We lost about 6 hours of
lineitems, and were able to reconstruct 95% of those from paper copies
of the orders that the call centers kept. Whew.

-- 
Matthew Walker
The Brain Garden, Inc
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