Techie wipes out $38 billion fund

[Superflyer]

Ooops! boy would I hate to be this guy. I have no idea how he kept his job after that, they must be having a shortage of workers as well.

I can just image how he was sweating after hitting that button. Trying to do maintance and then to see on the screen format complete. I think that I would get sick right there.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17702021/

[Bobblehead]

Originally Posted by Superflyer

Ooops! boy would I hate to be this guy. I have no idea how he kept his job after that, they must be having a shortage of workers as well.

I can just image how he was sweating after hitting that button. Trying to do maintance and then to see on the screen format complete. I think that I would get sick right there.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17702021/

I would like to know how he screwed up both the primary AND the backup.

I have little doubt there are many places where the backup tapes are no good. (Speaking of which, I had better check on mine...)

[Resolute 14]

I can only guess that he wiped out the backup while attempting to restore the primary. I know that when I am using Ghost to make a backup of a machine (ie, a VP's), I often get paranoid that I am about to overwrite that VP's hard drive, rather than take an image of it.

[Bobblehead]

Originally Posted by Snakeeye

I can only guess that he wiped out the backup while attempting to restore the primary. I know that when I am using Ghost to make a backup of a machine (ie, a VP's), I often get paranoid that I am about to overwrite that VP's hard drive, rather than take an image of it.

LOL, every fall I run a script to truncate all the tables of one of the databases I admin. I always take a deep breath before typing "@truncate.sql" and hitting return.

[rubecube]

Originally Posted by Bobblehead

LOL, every fall I run a script to truncate all the tables of one of the databases I admin. I always take a deep breath before typing "@truncate.sql" and hitting return.

[Hack&Lube]

I don't know if it was better that it was a government account vs. a corporation. On one hand, it's just another giant administrative task to ask people to send in their forms all over again. They are lucky this isn't some trading company or large mutual fund that many normal people have their life investments based on.

But it costs Alaskan tax-payers $200,000 to fix. But that's like nothing...they don't even pay taxes up there

[Phanuthier]

I remember in one of my summer jobs, I was working on a multi-million dollar project (I was just a data entry, database bitch) and I had conflicting messages from 2 project leaders of the 2 groups working together, and almost sunk $38 million.