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catud
Community Manager
7 days ago

‘Tis the Season: Share Your Spookiest "Data Horror Stories"! 👻

We kicked this month off with some Cybersecurity Awareness month fun, now let’s shift gears towards something a little more spooky to celebrate the Halloween season.

As Data enthusiasts and professionals, we all have our dreaded Data Horror Story that sticks in the back of our minds. Will you have the scariest tale?

🕸️ We want to hear YOUR spooky stories!

What is the most horrifying, hair-raising or downright just plain funny data mishap you’ve ever experienced? How did you escape that nightmare (or fix the query)?

Whether it was a mysterious dashboard metric that unexpectedly plummeted to zero at 4:59 PM on a Friday or entering a server room that just gave you the chills - drop your best Data Horror Story in the comments below!

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  • charles_sheppar's avatar
    charles_sheppar
    Everpure
    5 hours ago

    December 31st 1999, more than a year of planning and fretting about the year 2000 date issue.  The biggest party of all time is going on.... a new millennia.  But of course, I'm working in I.T.  A Novell Engineer, and my Director wants the entire staff onsite for the big moment.  No party for I.T. staffs around the world.  Nope, everyone at my organizatioin is in the data center, waiting,  watching the monochrome monitors installed in the top of each server rack, hands ready to respond to the chaos about to ensue. 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1  THE LIGHTS IN THE DATA CENTER GO OUT!!  Then a small chuckle as the lights power back on and another associate declares with glee, "Just Kidding"