Who doesn't already deleted a DB from production server because tought that is deleting it from localhost's Phpmyadmin? Yeah, shit happens...
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It seems less shitty when you have a backup of it from last 9mins, but sucks as well...

I deleted the production database more then 2 times thinking that it's the development database because some asshole developer didn't migrate the database to the production when the website went live.

A collegue was using some wrapper around one existing database for a test. When done he uninstalled the wrapper. The uninstall process wiped the database!!

Not quite what you would expect :/

Snd yes backups are good.

The first thing i did when we started working with our current database was writing a script that exports the whole damn thing into a massive csv before every change. I dont care how obsolote it is, im not losing a 10+gig database because of stupid people

that is why you create a different login to use that doesn't have that permission. if you ever do need to... then use an account that has the permission. simple solution

@RazorSh4rk outch boy. Shit happens to a really nice people to, not only with stupid ones.