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Cake day: June 9th, 2023

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  • One time I was deleting a user from our MySQL-backed RADIUS database.

    DELETE * FROM PASSWORDS;

    And yeah, if you don’t have a WHERE clause? It just deletes everything. About 60,000 records for a decent-sized ISP.

    That afternoon really, really sucked. We had only ad-hoc backups. It was not a well-run business.

    Now when I interview sysadmins (or these days devops), I always ask about their worst cock-up. It tells you a lot about a candidate.