What's your worst day?

Tell us about your worst day as a DBA

The DBA Team are looking for a special guest member – and it could be you.

All you need to do is tell us about your worst day with SQL Server, by filling in this survey.

If your story is the ‘best’ worst day out there, you’ll be named and pictured alongside Steve and Grant in a special Christmas episode of the DBA Team, running this December.

And there are prizes too - you’ll win tickets to SQL Cruise 2015 and a Red Gate SQL DBA Bundle.

Don’t miss out on this chance to see your name in lights - tell us your story today.

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* 1. How did you find out about the problem

Visit/call from the boss

Call from a customer

Alert from a monitoring tool

Server went down

You noticed it while at work

Another colleague pointed it out

Other (please specify)

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* 2. What was the main issue? (Choose all that apply!)

Restore failed

Corrupt data

Drive fail

Replication error

Physical disaster (Flood, fire, etc)

Long running query

Permissions error

Migrations error

Deadlocks

Dropped table

Indexing error

Ran out of drive space

Transaction log was full

Relied on a differential backup without a full backup

Restored the wrong server

Miscommunication across different teams

Truncated a table on the wrong server

Deployment fail

Other (please specify)

What's your worst day?

Tell us about your worst day as a DBA

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* 1. How did you find out about the problem

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* 2. What was the main issue? (Choose all that apply!)

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* 3. Tell us the full story - include everything you remember from that day, what caused the problem and what was affected.

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* 4. If yours is one of our top stories, we'll need to get in touch - what's the best email address we can use?

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* 5. Optional!
We'd also like to hear about how you prefer to keep updated about new blog posts and professional articles.

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* 1. How did you find out about the problem

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* 2. What was the main issue? (Choose all that apply!)

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* 3. Tell us the full story - include everything you remember from that day, what caused the problem and what was affected.

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* 4. If yours is one of our top stories, we'll need to get in touch - what's the best email address we can use?

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* 5. Optional!We'd also like to hear about how you prefer to keep updated about new blog posts and professional articles.

* 5. Optional!
We'd also like to hear about how you prefer to keep updated about new blog posts and professional articles.