Forms of Database Torture (Illustrated)

by Kendra Little on March 19, 2012

Many forms of disasters can happen to a database. Here are three I’ve seen lately.

There's a reason they keep datacenters cool

Ouch!

"Is there Tuna in There?"

eccentricDBA March 19, 2012 at 11:12 am #

Here I thought when the database was on fire it was a good thing.

“We just moved all of our databases to Solid State Disks and now the Databases are on fire.”

“Yeah, they are smoking.”

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- Kendra Little March 19, 2012 at 3:15 pm #
  
  That’s a good point. Smoking hot is good.
  
  You just want to avoid making the ceiling sprinklers go off.
  
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Robert L Davis March 19, 2012 at 3:32 pm #

Excellent! here’s one: My Database is Bottlenecked

http://www.sqlsoldier.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/DBBottleneck.jpg

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Joe Celko March 20, 2012 at 9:10 pm #

Where are “fragmented” and “denormalized” ?

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