June 24, 2010 at 9:31 am
This bug is replicatable.
I was restoring a production database onto a dev using the GUI. Restoration was from a .bak file.
I decided to overwrite the existing files on the dev and used the 'restore as' window on the 'options' page of the GUI. Selected my new files, but wanted to be really sure of things so I clicked on 'general' again to be ABSOLUTELY sure I was writing to the proper db.
Here is the problem: Normally after validating that I would expect to simply click OK and proceed. As it happened, though I happened to click back on the 'options' tab to find out that by simply looking at the general page, my files reverted back to the original! In other words, if I was just about to OVERWRITE MY PRODUCTION DB, simply by looking at the general page.
This is really really evil.
I now am scripting each of these operations and proofreading the script before excution.
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June 24, 2010 at 10:04 am
It's well known to be so.
You have to be very careful.
-- Gianluca Sartori
June 24, 2010 at 11:19 am
Gianluca Sartori (6/24/2010)
It's well known to be so.You have to be very careful.
I'm not surprised that it is known. Hopefully this post will help those who, like me, were unaware of this problem.
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