Today i will mostly be saying oops.

[lanciachris]

Update without where clause = many incorrect order delivery addresses, me in trouble.

Ive lined up my excuses
No backups
No testing.
Disgruntled employee just been made redundant, talking about doing malicious stuff.

Place your bets - will I still be employed at days end?

[Don]

lanciachris said:

Update without where clause = many incorrect order delivery addresses, me in trouble.

Been there. Done that.

lanciachris said:

No backups No testing.

lanciachris said:

Place your bets - will I still be employed at days end?

Best of luck.

[Jinx]

Time for plenty of technobabble - "indefinable exception cascade error" caused by "unique interpration command structure instruction". Time to blame the non-english speaking temp.

Good luck.

[BliarOut]

I would go for disgruntled ex-employee... Unable to launch a defence

[zumbruk]

The word you least want to hear your techie say; "Oops!"

Followed by; "I wonder why it did that?"

[agent006]

I've been worrying people today by having a non buls**tting day. I've been saying lots of things like:

"Not a clue why that's happening"
"Yep, that's pretty much knackered"
"Nope, still no idea"

[Piccy mate]

fall back on .....
Sharp intake of breath and say " That doesn't look too good , does it?" or "Well it weren't like that the last time I checked"
or We have a mains failure last night?
or " I'll see what I can do, but it's gonna take a long time to unravel that corruption"
Then sign up on every database help site you can find - I can help out with at least 14 Access Sites
Piccy sitting smugly at work!

[ThatPhilBrettGuy]

SQLServer? What transaction logging has the DB got?

[lanciachris]

Hmm. yup sql server and.... (remote desktop here we come)....

Well. obviously theres a transaction log, but apparently cant look at it without having some existing backup of the database.

[BliarOut]

zumbruk said:

The word you least want to hear your techie say; "Oops!" Followed by; "I wonder why it did that?"

Nope, that's the last word you want the surgeon to say when you are having the snip

Yes, he really did when I had it done!!!

[lanciachris]

Scary. It seems I still have my job, which is kinda disappointing. Nevermind eh.

If anyone else out there needs a programmer with my obvious skills let me know

[pdV6]

lanciachris said:

If anyone else out there needs a programmer with my obvious skills let me know

Not selling yourself too well on this thread!

[JonRB]

So presumably some sort of backup strategy is being discussed now then?

[fer]

Where do I send my CV into?

(Not getting desparate or anything.)

[billb]

aaah me too am in that position today - someone tell me a) whats the point buying ups's when a power cut still s ure server and b) whats the point of backup software when it doesnt restore...arse



see u down the pub/dole office

[pdV6]

billb said:

aaah me too am in that position today - someone tell me a) whats the point buying ups's when a power cut still s ure server and b) whats the point of backup software when it doesnt restore...arse see u down the pub/dole office

A few months ago we lost power to the entire street where the office is situated. As "luck" would have it, the only machine to die miserably as a result was the one with multiple redundant PSUs, UPS & Raid. All the boggo desktops pressed into slavery as servers were fine.

Just goes to show that Murphy was right all along...