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[quote=jsteele][quote=Anonymous]Best moment of DCUM?

Worst moment of DCUM?[/quote]

I don't know about the best moment. There have been a lot of good times. I liked being invited to the Kojo Show.

The worst time was when we had a three-day outage. That actually started sometime before the actual outage when the system started working very slowly. I spent several days troubleshooting and not being able to identify the cause. In an act of desperation, I bought two new servers that I thought would speed things up. That didn't work and then the entire thing eventually crashed and the database cluster got corrupted. Restoring the database took hours and then didn't work and I had to restore several times. I was basically working around the clock for three days. It was really stressful. It got fixed when I accidentally unplugged the switch. That caused the database cluster to crash again, but when everything came back up it was really fast. The problem turned out to be the switch. I was angry that I hadn't been about to diagnose that and felt really foolish.
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