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I didn't drop a schema, but I did, um, accidentally get over aggressive with a merge-purge duplicate process. By which I mean that I merged every single record, all of them, into a single record.

I was very fortunate, we had backups and restoring went smoothly, and my boss very calmly asked me one thing: "did you learn from this?" I assured him that I had.




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