FIXED - deletion of sa

[Thorsten Hohage]

Hi Jeff,

On 2008-02-13, at 11:30, Jeff Justice wrote:

> And you DID tell me to delete the sa user....what was unexpected was  
> that the column didn't refresh to show that it was deleted, causing  
> my engineer to relaunch VStudio.  Then he had a problem.


OK, I tell you to delete SA - yes!

Of course it was late yesterday and perhaps I missed some obvious  
assumptions - sorry!

I hesitate to reply on the last mail where you mentioned the above  
"story", but after you now answered direct to me, I think it's ok to  
still break my silence in this thread again.


SO you really going to tell me a "engineer", a "20 year programming  
veteran" is deleting a user in any given system which he used to log  
in? You're kidding? You're trying to make my morning.

If he didn't know what he's doing, his 20 years of experience should  
tell him, do it not! Check it again!

If he didn't remember the login used, his 20 years of experience  
should tell him, to better login again and check the used login!

If he really had remembered the used login and he was knowing what  
he's going to do, than ... the resulting necessary re-install is not  
enough punishment! Perhaps if this "20 year programming veteran" did  
only software development for automotive or embedded system, or  
something similar, this may be an execution. I really, really can't  
get it, why any experience IT-Tech, Developer, DB-Admin would ever  
delete any user / login, especially an admin user w/o knowing what  
he's doing. We're not talking about deleting the high score of a game,  
or some trashys mpg's - we're talking about a really serious action!


I remember several years ago, where a user deleted ALL database files  
of my application and expected to reappear them after restart of the  
application, because "Mac [OS 9] applications always recreate the  
necessary preferences!" and it was a common practise in these days to  
delete preferences to fix something. He lost 2 years of billing - of  
course no backup - and he ended up with re-entering all the data.



regards

Thorsten Hohage
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objectmanufactur.com - Hamburg,Germany