You want fries with that?

Wow...its been a long time since something went so sideways I felt compelled to write about it....

But don't mistake that for there not being any craziness!

ATTENTION ALL DEVELOPERS!!!!

If you are going to do a major upgrade to your very large database, please consider the following:

• YOU are responsible for your rollback plan. Nobody else.
• When you wake us up to rollback because your upgrade blew up, please give us a chance to get up to speed, before you start calling Directors and VPs.
• TAKE A BACKUP IMMEDIATELY BEFORE THE UPGRADE!!!!!
• Store that backup in a folder that does not have a cleanup/delete process attached to it
• Test this upgrade in your test/dev environment first.
• Don't expect me to throw a teammate under the bus on a conference call.
• Don't expect me to be on a conf call every 30 minutes...I'm busy cleaning this up.

Not only do you not get fries, you now owe me some! (Waffle fries from Chick-Fil-A will be just fine, thanks.)

That is all.