The First Annual Scary, Spooky SQL Stories Contest

posted by  johnb (86)  10 months ago (feeds.feedburner.com)

Welcome to my first annual "Scary, Spooky SQL Stories" contest. My kids are getting excited about Halloween and having fun telling ghost stories. It occurred to me that although we don't have to worry about ghosts, ghouls, and other unspeakable monsters, we all have truly horrible and frightening stories from work that we can tell around the proverbial campfire. I remember back to one of my earliest jobs when I was playing the role of the "development team DBA" and needed to recover a very important backup when the developers realized that they had somehow corrupted the integrity of the code b