The morning when we realized all of our system databases on a specific production server became corrupt sometime the day before 2021-01-07 by The DBA Leave a Comment
Documenting the stored procedure business logic in our legacy data 2021-01-07 by The DBA Leave a Comment
When we have to come up with a plan to downsize databases from an Exadata onto an ODA and it involves Crisco, a cork, and duct tape 2021-01-07 by The DBA Leave a Comment
When I get back from vacation to find 3 weeks of failing backups, the ops team didn’t think it seemed important enough to disturb me 2021-01-07 by The DBA Leave a Comment
When one of our production applications is suddenly generating about 10x the amount of CRUD transactions (and paging me out on Saturday because of filling up our archive log file system) 2021-01-07 by The DBA Leave a Comment
When the user says: “My program crashed”, and I ask: “What are the details?”, and they say: “It crashed with an error” 2021-01-06 by The DBA Leave a Comment
