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This DBA means business!

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    Rajasekharan Vengalil
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    There's a production deployment of our application coming up next week and I was asked to draft a deployment plan and send it out for review. As part of the tasks the DBA is responsible for, I put the following:

    Lock out users that are still using the server database.

    The DBA promptly replied and requested that this be re-phrased like this:

    Kill users that are still using the server database.

    I quickly apologized and immediately made the change!

    -- gleat http://blogorama.nerdworks.in[^] --

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      There's a production deployment of our application coming up next week and I was asked to draft a deployment plan and send it out for review. As part of the tasks the DBA is responsible for, I put the following:

      Lock out users that are still using the server database.

      The DBA promptly replied and requested that this be re-phrased like this:

      Kill users that are still using the server database.

      I quickly apologized and immediately made the change!

      -- gleat http://blogorama.nerdworks.in[^] --

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      Brady Kelly
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      Less serious, I had the materialist DBA hat on today - only money fields in my tables for floats.

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      • R Rajasekharan Vengalil

        There's a production deployment of our application coming up next week and I was asked to draft a deployment plan and send it out for review. As part of the tasks the DBA is responsible for, I put the following:

        Lock out users that are still using the server database.

        The DBA promptly replied and requested that this be re-phrased like this:

        Kill users that are still using the server database.

        I quickly apologized and immediately made the change!

        -- gleat http://blogorama.nerdworks.in[^] --

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        Pravarakhya
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        Must be some military database :^)

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        • R Rajasekharan Vengalil

          There's a production deployment of our application coming up next week and I was asked to draft a deployment plan and send it out for review. As part of the tasks the DBA is responsible for, I put the following:

          Lock out users that are still using the server database.

          The DBA promptly replied and requested that this be re-phrased like this:

          Kill users that are still using the server database.

          I quickly apologized and immediately made the change!

          -- gleat http://blogorama.nerdworks.in[^] --

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          Mycroft Holmes
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          gleat wrote:

          Kill users that are still using the server database

          You may want to change that to user processes, after all it is going to management and they have some weird ideas on interpreting technical docs.

          Never underestimate the power of human stupidity RAH

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            gleat wrote:

            Kill users that are still using the server database

            You may want to change that to user processes, after all it is going to management and they have some weird ideas on interpreting technical docs.

            Never underestimate the power of human stupidity RAH

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            Edbert P
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            But that won't kill the root of the problem, right? ;P

            "A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine." - Thomas Jefferson "Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote." - Benjamin Franklin Edbert Sydney, Australia

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              But that won't kill the root of the problem, right? ;P

              "A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine." - Thomas Jefferson "Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote." - Benjamin Franklin Edbert Sydney, Australia

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              Mycroft Holmes
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              Yeah but you need to root problem to start up again after the upgrade is completed. As much as we bitch about our users they are the reason we are employed.

              Never underestimate the power of human stupidity RAH

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