Rant, but also want to know, how the fuck do you accidentally drop a database link. In production. On the most important database. Housing our biggest applications.

By being very careless or very stupid.

Not sure whats worse - dropping the database in the first place. Or working on the database without making a copy of it.

By doing lots of things wrong:
- making changes in prod
- not making a copy before making changes
- don't double check / review your changes before committing / saving
- don't have a coworker look over your changes
- don't use CD because you wouldn't have to make changes in prod if you would

Sever the network cable that supplies data to your data center like that one time I went to work and everyone was yelling?

@projektaquarius alternatively: have an emotionally unstable former Catholic now Mormon technologically inept Italian lady who claims to be a software developer set up her own sandbox to do database work even though she can barely spell SQL and give her any task.

@projektaquarius last one then I am done, but this has proven therapeutic.

Have a sysadmin who "virtualized the entire government of California" and "laid cable in the middle east during his deployment", who also, incidentally, is a Mormon, ask you to come with him so he knows what to delete off of the sql server because he wants to speed it up, but you are on your way to a "very important" and ask him to come back by in the afternoon so you can give him your full attention because you have a full plate and you hear him utter the ominous words "okay I will just start deleting stuff then" then his wife calls and tells him there is an emergency he has to attend to and so he leaves early to attend to that, then goes on vacation for the next week and a half so you don't know what he deleted or where he put the back up, but he isn't answering his phone and you can pull data. And then your coworkers wonder why you need that third beer at lunch.

@projektaquarius dum dum dum, dum dum

I'm on the prod server making little tweaks to data all the time. Our app's UI doesn't do everything.