Paul I think you "mis-spoke" - did you not mean to say:
I suspect a flaky network after speaking to the rather cute, young Swedish woman :-) Sorry - couldn't resist Paul Paul Hill wrote: > On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 11:28 PM, Bill Arnold > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Paul, >> >> They should be able to restore yesterday's backup, archive some of the >> database to reduce it's size, and then apply changes from yesterday >> using images of changes stored in an audit trail. >> > > The problem is this *was* the audit trail. There's a paper audit > trail but it would be hard to recreate things like credit card > payments. > > To make matters worse this client had a problem a few weeks ago where > 2 days worth of transactions 'disappeared'. We can't be sure if it > was the (rather cute, young Swedish woman :-) first line support who > fucked up or some kind of network problem. I suspect a flaky network > after speaking to the local network guy today. > > >> The code that connects a table with the potential to reach the size >> limit should test table size and when it exceeds say 90% of the max put >> up progressively urgent warning messages saying it's time to archive >> some data. >> > > It was a corruption rather than a table growing too big. The real > data size was 115Mb. > > _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
