Tag Archives: disaster recovery

Deleting a Database

Posted on May 12, 2025 by way0utwest

Who among us has deleted a production database? I’d hope it’s very few of you that have done this in your career. I’m sure a few of you have deleted (or truncated or updated all rows for) a table in … Continue reading →

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Responding to a Disaster

Posted on August 2, 2024 by way0utwest

Ryan had a planes, trains, and automobiles situation a few weeks ago. On the same day, I didn’t. A delay for a few hours, but an easy trip home. Lots of other people didn’t have a smooth trip, and I … Continue reading →

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A Staffing Disaster

Posted on September 29, 2023 by way0utwest

There was a failure recently at an Azure data center in Australia when a utility power sag caused equipment to trip offline at one of the Azure data centers in Australia. You can read about it here, but essentially the … Continue reading →

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How Many Days Can You Survive?

Posted on June 5, 2023 by way0utwest

I saw a great post from DCAC on disaster plans and using them after a fire in an LA data center. DCAC wasn’t affected, and I wouldn’t expect them to be. Denny, Joey, Monica, John, Kerry, and Meagan are all … Continue reading →

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