Friday Funny: Tom Scott – The Worst Typo I Ever Made

I came across this great video by one of my favourite YouTubers, Tom Scott, recently and thought I would share it with you. Tom’s videos are well researched, interesting and presented with a good sense of humour.

This one is specifically about an incident where he made a typo while working on a SQL database and his advice about how everything went wrong and how to ensure it does not in future is worth listening to.

Here is the video, enjoy….

The Worst Typo I Ever Made (Direct Link)

Hope you found this educational.

Please comment if you have made a similar mistake.

For example: I once executed a delete statement on the GL Account Master table in a Dynamics GP system and forgot to highlight the where clause when I clicked the execute button. Instead of removing one account, it removed them all… on a live system that was in use at the time. I managed to very quickly cut and paste the records back from the test company database which was a very recent copy. But I can tell you my heart rate was accelerated.

David

This article was originally posted on http://www.winthropdc.com/blog.