Comments on: DBA Horror Stories

By: Jen McCown

Jen McCown — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 15:52:34 +0000

I never did link to my horror story (better late than never, right)…I answered via video, trading horror stories with Allen White and Sean. I don’t think any of us beat Marc’s story, though…

Linky: http://midnightdba.itbookworm.com/VidPages/DBAsAtMidnightAllenWhite2of2/DBAsAtMidnightAllenWhite2of2.aspx

By: Jorge Segarra

Jorge Segarra — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 20:21:55 +0000

HOLY CRAP! Talk about Engineering #fail!

By: Marc Brooks

Marc Brooks — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 04:21:59 +0000

My horror story is much more fun. Picture having your offices on the top floor of a 5 story building. Picture your very nice server room, with UPS’s backup generator out back and a HUGE A/C unit (could have done the whole building). Picture the 4 inch pipes carrying 10,000 gallons of chilled water from the evaporators on the roof directly ABOVE the server room bursting and dumping all 10,000 gallons directly on top of the entire set of 4 (48U) cabinets filled with servers, SAN and tape units.

It was a soggy staff…

By: uberVU - social comments

uberVU - social comments — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 17:01:26 +0000

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