Shane O’Neill “has a friend” who learned an important lesson about the database restore GUI:
GUIs are good for….
…discovery.
They give you the option to script out the configurations you have chosen. If my friend had chosen to script out the restore, rather then clicking “OK” to run it, maybe he would have caught this mistake when reviewing it – rather than overwriting the Live database with 2 week old data and spending a weekend in the office with 3 colleagues fixing it.
Plus if you ever want to ensure that you know something, try and script it out from scratch.
Read the whole thing; good thing that totally didn’t happen to Shane and was just his friend!