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Sigh ... to be as brief as possible: I come from a Linux background where programs like mysqldump make it stupid easy to move a database from one place to another. Would that it were so easy with MS SQL Server 2000. I asked an MS-savvy colleague how to take a backup of the finance database in the company I was working at, so I could test some new tools on the backup copy.

He talked me through the whole thing, I just pressed the buttons. Then he got to the fateful words: "now you just press F6 and away we go." In the blizzard of words which whirled across the screen, I could just make out the line "Dropped database 'Finance'" I asked my colleague about this, and we both got that nasty, ice-cold ass-puckering feeling you get when you just f*cked up really badly. We went and bought cakes for the Finance Dept while the DB was restored from backup tape, although half a day's work was lost.

Technically not my fault, but I did press the button and I hate dropping other people in it, so I fell on my sword, so to speak, and took the blame.