Probably the best database recovery in the world
Who, Me? The days are drawing in and the mornings are getting darker – so why not take a dose of Who, Me? to help lighten up your day.
In this week’s instalment of El Reg ’s weekly column filled with embarrassing reader cock-ups, we meet “Bert”, who was working at a large brewing firm at the point in question.
“I was a junior dev as part of a team putting in a system to track all of their beer barrels in the UK,” he told us.
At the time – “ye olde worlde before broadband”, as Bert put it – getting through the security system was “a convoluted, long-winded and painfully slow process”.
He said it involved two remote sessions using a VPN from Windows 2000 and then a VNC session from the portal server to the database/code server, all over dial-up.
“These were the days when you could see the screen refreshing almost a frame at a time,” he said.
Anyway, on the day in question, Bert was paying close attention – and possibly thought he could see a way to win some brownie points with the boss.
