I fucked up big time and I think I'm having a panic attack.

don't be a pussy about it, we all fuck up

take a deep breath and user your super power (brain) and get yourself outta that mess

Time to flee to North macedonia. Nobody will find you there.

@antigermanist 😄

So, what have you done?

I bet it's not as big as you think.

@lungdart that’s what she said

finally killed that limping PROD server? It was long overdue anyway...

Fucking tried to reinstall Crystal Reports and it killed the entire CRM at a customer's.

@Ranchonyx time to sue Crystal Reports (whatever that is)!

@Lensflare It's an SAP Product to generate a variety of graphical and PDF reports from a variety of data.

I fucking hate SAP. Everyone I know hates SAP.

@Ranchonyx I hate SAP, too!

You can always make things worse. Give it a try.

@Ranchonyx I was in a similar situation when I tried to make planned a change in Liferay's database tables (PROD). It killed the whole Liferay's entity mapping. I had to restore its tables (thanks to Oracle's Flashback) to make it work again, otherwise it was showing but stock Liferay webpage.

That project was scheduled for an audit by a national bank the next day. I had to improvise. A good lad sysadmin (client-side) helped me out as long as he could, but he had to go to sleep some time too. So I asked him to try the last thing and I promised it will be the last thing I ask him that day. I wasn't sure if it would work.

It worked.

I slept unlike any baby that night.

So you're not alone making such fuckups :) Shit happens.

Worst case, you have backups. You DO have backups, right?

If you have oracle -- you DO have flashback enabled, right? If you do -- don't wait until it expires, restore all you can while you can into shadow tables.

@retoor reminds me of MS' school of UX design:

Only show confirmation dialogs where it‘s annoying, not where it‘s necessary.

@Lensflare did you know in anciant greece, small penises were actually recognized as a sign of strength and virile power?

@antigermanist I didn’t. Interesting!

Any product demo showing SAP working in a satisfactory manner is clearly fraud.

— http://harmful.cat-v.org/software/...

The database turned out fine. It's safe and we've managed to restore everything and get the CRM server running again. I need cheap whisky now.

@Ranchonyx gj!