DBA horror stories


i trying horror stories poor dba practices have encountered or witnessed on years colleagues or maybe yourselves in younger years starting out dba’s, on poor administration/naïve dba’s can wrong in sql server can have negative consequences on availability , performance of vital databases drive key business applications. examples have come across, or “set , forget it” type admin practices youve witnessed , happen negatively , impact that’s had on db section/business interesting hear.

hi,

most of them related backups , security.

1. dba never ran backup because he , employer believed raid5 protect against : viruses, asteroid striking earth, 

ntfs corruption, tyranosaurus attack, name it! a stupid mistake far more common might imagine.

2. choosing trivial passwords 'sa' , administrator accounts.

3. never tested dr strategy (including clusters, log shipping, replication, dump all tables csv , whatever). once disaster arrived, dba didn't know

how restore data, parts of missing (like logins , scheduled jobs, ssis packages, ssrs reports, long list of "etc...") or out of sync. plain disaster.

4. keeping dev , prod on the same box (that goes against common sense 101)

sebastian sajaroff senior dba pharmacies jean coutu



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