I could definitely use one.
I have finished the first five months working in my new job with the Alaska Railroad (in Anchorage, Alaska).
Two weeks ago I was very glad that I was working in the separate development area and not the live production one. I made a totally rooky mistake
. I forgot to put the 'WHERE' clause on an SQL 'UPDATE' statement and overwrote every record in the table. Thank goodness for the database snapshots that are automatically done and the kind DBA who fixed it.
And, in Perl programming, not recognizing and ignoring the '.' and '..' in directory listings can really bite you in the butt. '..' means the directory above the one you are 'in'. When doing a Perl script that recurses through all the directories (and deletes or edits files), you really do NOT want to recurse up. (21 years ago, I missed that one and wiped out a whole lot of stuff before I realized what it was doing, and another nice sys admin fixed up my mistake.)
The moral of the story, look very carefully at any code that changes/deletes stuff and make sure that regular backups are done on everything.
(By the way, we are loving living in Alaska. Last weekend we spotted a black bear watching some nearby Dall sheep, and got the pictures.
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Cheers,
Ancient Lady
