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by RmDen 2322 days ago
Some of mine

Was testing code and pushed a file to FTP 2 days early... vendor picked up, processed file.. the people who signed up in the next 2 days were in the file pushed later... but the vendor already processed the earlier file so they didn't get their metro cards that month

Somehow managed to rebalance underlying components for a Trendpilot ETF monthly instead of quarterly... daily audit that compares the values on NYSE vs in our DB caught it.. lucky for me there was no money in it yet

dropped a table once at lunch time right before taking a bite of my sandwich... did restore table within 10 minutes , didn't eat lunch that day ... lost appetite...

In ETL tool hardcoded something to test.... left it there when running for real