At 04:14 AM 1/06/2003 -0400, you wrote:

>I hope this thing doesn't happen to FB with high concurrency, at least not
>too tragically. First, a warning message was sent to the spamcop newsgroup:
>
>"SpamCop Admin" <service@...> wrote in message
>news:<hk0idv0f17tlfbn89p9nnfnvisovqmmkn5@...>...
> > Julian is running a major database maintenance routine today.
> >
> > Things will be slow and you'll get all sorts of odd errors.
> >
> > As always, the immediate action drill is to shut down your browser and
> > go lie on the couch. :-)
> >
> > - Don -
>
>So, running a maintenance routine is enough to make MySQL inoperable?

A maintenance routine might be anything. It might be something out of the
ordinary like major DDL/datapumps/index rebuilds. Let's try to be
charitable.
:-))

Helen