The Great Database Wipeout: How a Single 'DROP DATABASE' Taught Me Everything About Backups
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There is a specific kind of cold sweat known only to software engineers and database administrators.
It happens in a microsecond. You press Enter in your terminal, expect a clean 3-millisecond query response, and instead watch the terminal freeze. You glance up at your tab title and realize with horror:
You weren’t connected to staging. You were connected to production.