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At last, Atlassian sees an end to its outage ... in two weeks

Doctor Syntax Silver badge

"Instead of deleting the legacy data, the script erroneously deleted sites, and all associated products for those sites including connected products, users, and third-party applications."

With an SQL database any sufficiently paranoid DBA will run a SELECT with the same WHERE clause as the intended DELETE to check that what would be deleted is what's intended. I suppose this is all trendy NoSQL stuff. Doesn't that have the same facility?

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