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kretara
Cynical Old Bastard
 
Join Date: May 2004
Location: The Hot, Hazey, Humid South
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2005-01-06, 10:44

Quite a while ago I bought (on impulse) a Compaq P120 with a 1GB HD and 16MB RAM for $2700.00
After I got home I was like what the F*%# did I do that for.

On the same computer I tried to delete IE. I lost a lot of important work that way.

I've had 2 SQL accidents.
I typed in the wrong syntax and put mySQL into an infinite loop AND the SQL statement was being called in a while script that decided to go infinite also. This brought down my companies web server.

After putting in about 75 hours a week for 4 weeks I was 12 hours away from launching my part of a web app. right on deadline. As I was fixing a misspelling in someones last name something fell off my monitor stand and hit my keyboard at the same time as I was hitting the return key to run the SQL update. Instead of updating 1 record it changed 16,000 records. My boss and I spent 8 hours recovering the data.
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