Biggest WTF ever: Suddenly a shitty application totally unexpectedly starts ACTUALLY WORKING today when it is completely expected to shit the bed. Who would have ever expected that?
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Biggest WTF ever: Suddenly a shitty application totally unexpectedly starts ACTUALLY WORKING today when it is completely expected to shit the bed. Who would have ever expected that?
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RE: Brilliant Oracle Consultants...
I am the guy who resurrected this thread. I guess I should have been Arch-vile instead of El Oscuro. I am also pretty new to posting on TDWTF, so I have a few questions:
- WTF is a dead thread? On a Camaro board, we have active threads that are over 5 years old.
- HTF do you tell if a given thread is dead?
- HTF do you start a new thread? How does this make it easier to search when the orignial thread only has about 10 posts?
- The "Brilliant Oracle Consultants" thread should have about 1,000 replies. If not, I have lots of experience and can spawn all kinds of "I hate Oracle" threads.
- BTW, I have been an Oracle Consultant. *Twice*
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RE: Brilliant Oracle Consultants...
Many years ago (oracle 6), I got called to a clients site to recover a database. Oracle had sent their "fireman of the year" consultant, and he said: "You hot backup procedures did not backup the controlfiles correctly" There is no way to recover the database (oracle 6 didn't have a "create controlfile" command). The client stood to lose 2 years of data He told them they were SOL. So they called me.
I was brand-new to Oracle at the time, and had never run it a production environment, much less done a recovery. While the "fireman of the year" was technically correct about not backing Oracle 6 controlfiles correctly in hot backups, he didn't as the client the right questions. I asked some different ones:'
"Do you have any exports of the database anywhere?"
"No"
"Do you have any backups of the system taken at any time when the database was down?"
"No"
"Are you sure? Absolutly none at all?"
"Well I did backup the system after the database crashed."
"Good. Restore the controlfiles from it. We will procede from there"
The "Fireman of the Year" did assist with the media recovery after the restore. I could have done it but I hadn't done one before and it would have taken me longer.
The thing I learned from that system operator is: Always backup everything you can after a crash. Those backups may be the ones that save your ass.
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RE: Apple WTF
@snoofle said:
Four months ago, my windows pc died, so I took the plunge and bought an iMac. Last week, the cd/dvd drive died. Since it's under warranty, I called Apple's support line and asked for it to be fixed. After 35 minutes on hold, some buffoon answers, walks through the usual support script questions and decides the drive is broken. They don't send parts, so they tell me to take it to the local Apple store. But you can only go by appointment (unless you like sitting there hoping for an opening), and they only have appointments in the middle of the workday (there are 4 stores within 20 miles; I tried them all). I make the appointment and note on it that the drive is busted and needs to be replaced per Apple support. Ok, I take the day off and go there. The guy looks at it for 5 minutes and announces it's a bad drive; leave the machine for 10-14 days and we'll get to it.
10-14 days? Maybe that's ok for 12 year olds accessing my-space, and retired couples sending pix of the grandkids, but I use mine to access work and couldn't leave it. I asked them to just give me the replacement part and I'd install it. No can do. I tell the guy to pretend I don't have a warranty and just SELL me the replacement part. No can do: not user serviceable (I've been building PC's for 25 years). I offered to sign a waiver that if I caused any damage, that Apple wouldn't be responsible, but still got "Sorry, can't help you."
Let me get this straight: I've got a 4 month old iMac still under warranty, and the only way to get it fixed is to leave it for 10-14 days?
Determined, I called Apple support again, waited 30 minutes before someone answered, asked for a supervisor, and got put on hold for 20 minutes. I hung up, called back, waited 30 more minutes, finally got transferred to level-2 support, explained the problem, ran through some diagnostics, and the guy announced that he has determined that the drive is bad and needs to be replaced. I told him I couldn't leave the unit for 2 weeks, so he offered to send someone to the house to fix it (why didn't the previous folks know that you could do that?). OK, but after 4 days, nobody has called to schedule an appointment, and of course, the 2nd level tech doesn't return phone calls.
Is Apply trying to alienate it's customers?
Has anyone else had this type of experience with Apple?
Years ago (in 1999 I think), I ordered one of the original I-Macs. Turned it on. Dead screen. Took it to Apple repair shop which took about 2 weeks to fix it. A few years later, the slot loader CD-ROM drive broke, and I was never able to fix it, nor able to order a replacement drive. I eventually trashed it, and the computers I buy these days run Linux.
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RE: Best. Error. Message. Ever.
I got everyone here beat.
During a routine switchover to a standby of our biggest (5 TB), most important database:
ORA-16139 DURING ALTER DATABASE COMMIT TO SWITCHOVER TO STANDBY;
We were testing a disaster recovery and switching our databases to our standby sites. We had done this many times and had saved our most important database for last. Did I mention it was 5TB, 24x7 and had 10k users? After receiving this error, we couldn't open either the primary nor the standby. What was supposed to be about a 1-2 hour outage (that management had difficulty approving) turned into a 14 hour nightmare. We got no meaningful support from Oracle and there was time in which we thought we would have to restore this database from tape and do incomplete media recovery. And did I mention it was 5TB?