Professional Life-Lesson OTD

[jbsegal]

Always know what machine you're typing at before you type 'drop database {foo}' at a mysql prompt.

(no major harm done, in the long run...)
{sigh}

Comments

[louiseroho.livejournal.com]

could be 'rm -rf /bin'

Always a bad plan.

[gsh]

I once did that by accident. Although it was actually 'rm / tmp".

[denonymous.livejournal.com]

I'm disappointed to see that I still have all my RT tickets.

[shayde.livejournal.com]

I alwaus do that from teh command line just to make sure I'm a) sure it's what I want to do, b) mysql -prompts - to make sure it's what you want to do, and c) the promtp has the machine name :)

mysqladmin -u blah -p blah drop dbname

:)