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This image has been circulating as the cause of the outage. Can't confirm either way: http://i.imgur.com/zoX08TY.png

"The main POS table was deleted"

If true, perhaps someone learned the value of BEGIN TRANSACTION today.

Yes, their "IT support" (that costs how much per year again), run by some underpaid "SQL Specialist" in India with 9 layers of Middle-management above probably fumbled an SQL query.

Note: This is a critique of "corporate IT services" essentially, overpriced and underperforming

lol

Or, if they were using MySQL, what they may have learned today is that DDL statements (such as DROP TABLE) implicitly COMMIT.

While I did learn something new from your comment, I can't imagine any enterprise shop that's not running Oracle DB or MSSQL. Maybe it's just the bias I have from my job history, but for standard enterprise shops and their OLTP data, is there any competitor to Oracle DB & MSSQL? I know that at my employer they use berekleydb/teradata/hadoop/mainframe systems for different workloads, but the bread and butter is Oracle RAC clusters.

Not saying that I think Oracle DB & MSSQL is unbeatable, I'm asking because I am trying to see what exists outside my little biased view.

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