Re: PM Confessional

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Re^2: PM Confessional by ambrus (Abbot) on Jan 18, 2011 at 18:08 UTC
I know it's stupid, but I often have the urge to delete editor backup files. I don't dare to type `rm *~` though, for fear of accidentally pressing enter too early, so I have an alias `rmt` which does that.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^2: PM Confessional by Jenda (Abbot) on Jan 19, 2011 at 17:48 UTC
That's why I (prettymuch always) stick the handwritten updates and deletes between `BEGIN TRANSACTION` and `ROLLBACK` and if and only if I get a sane "N rows affected" message do I select and run just the statement. Saved my butt a few times. Jenda Enoch was right! Enjoy the last years of Rome.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^3: PM Confessional by Tux (Canon) on Jan 20, 2011 at 07:18 UTC
Sane way of operating. It will also protect you fro the less obvious mistake of writing `delete from table where key > 0;` instead of `delete from table where key < 0;` which is only one key apart. I know someone else who did that. This thread is not about errors someone else made, but I will still tell one from the recent past: After months of preparing and exercising all the needed commands for the move of one production platform to a newer platform of a more modern architecture, someone (not in our company) issued the main "rsync" command (which also had a --delete) THE WRONG WAY AROUND and deleting two days of work. The restore from backup took 6 hours and regained 1½ day of work. Enjoy, Have FUN! H.Merijn	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^2: PM Confessional by gnusosa (Initiate) on Jan 28, 2011 at 20:25 UTC
Oh Man, That is the worst. I did the same, but with a worst SQL command, something like these: `delete from unindexed_table order by id where key = AF0425;` Worst experience of my newb times, but that led me to the discovery of MySQL logs. The Good ol' days.	[reply] [d/l]


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