> > > disk's physical surface or its heads from damage when people (or Acts

of

> > > God) do this kind of thing. If the heads were left on the disk

surface at

> >
> >Acts of God?? Did you watch "The Man Who Sued God"?
>
> Ach, I spent a recent weekend repairing a database that got corrupted when
> a thunderstorm outage fzappt-ed a chunk of hard disk where a couple of
> pages of the company's database pages happened to be. Thunderstorms sans
> rain, natch, in a place that's locked in a three-year drought...company
> does backups in wet years...the Lord doth work in mysterious ways, his
> wonders to perform...

Oh, nasty... Did you smack their system administrator in the head for this?

Anyway, it's a fun movie:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0268437/

With regards,

Martijn Tonies
Database Workbench - developer tool for InterBase, Firebird, MySQL & MS SQL
Server.
Upscene Productions
http://www.upscene.com