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[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If dropping a database scares you, you are either unaware of the disaster recovery process, or there isn't one. Edumacate yourself, or the org, as appropriate, so as to increase your confidence when dropping databases.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (2 children)

On a related note, a lot of companies establish recovery processes without actually testing them. Then the first time a recovery is needed they find out that it doesn't work as expected.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

I wasn't prepared to be personally attacked like this.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And also not updating them when things change. The recovery process for a database changes considerably once it's involved in replication, which one client found out the hard way.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago