title: What is your biggest SQL Server mistake or embarrassing incident?
body: <p>You know the one I am talking about.</p>
  
  <p>We have all been there at some point. You get that awful feeling of dread and the realisation of oh my god did that actually just happen.</p>
  
  <p>Sure you can laugh about it now though, right, so go on and share your SQL Server mishaps with us. </p>
  
  <p>Even better if you can detail how you resolved your issue so that we can learn from our mistakes together.</p>
  
  <p>So in order to get the ball rolling, I will go first……..</p>
  
  <p>It was back in my early years as a junior SQL Server Guru. I was racing around Enterprise Manager, performing a few admin duties. You know how it is, checking a few logs, ensuring the backups ran ok, a little database housekeeping, pretty much going about business on autopilot and hitting the enter key on the usual prompts that pop up.</p>
  
  <p>Oh wait, was that a “Are you sure you wish to delete this table” prompt. Too late!</p>
  
  <p>Just to confirm for any aspiring DBA’s out there, deleting a production table is a very very bad thing!</p>
  
  <p>Needless to say a world record was promptly set for the fastest database restore to a new database, swiftly followed by a table migration, oh yeah. Everyone else was none the wiser of course but still a valuable lesson learnt. Concentrate!</p>