True Tales of Survival: The $500 million dollar typo

This happened 20 years ago, but it is an amazing tale of how a series of small but unfortunate events can very quickly add up to a very expensive problem. Like the time one person fat-fingered the wrong year on a JCL job, Ronald Reagan died, and the US postal service lost $500 million. As told by Jeff White, one-time senior manager of database operations and now Enterprise Architecture Manager for Cockroach Labs....

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