Human Error Preventives

Being a DBA or system administrator, simple ENTER may bring us into a nightmare. 

It is unavoidable, however what we can do is to prevent it from happening at  low probability as possible. 

Good habit should help us. 
*** This thread would be updated  on-going , any comments are welcome.

1. shell environment settings.
Today I notice below are mentioned in cygwin's .bashrc

 # Some example alias instructions
# If these are enabled they will be used instead of any instructions
# they may mask.  For example, alias rm='rm -i' will mask the rm
# application.  To override the alias instruction use a \ before, ie
# \rm will call the real rm not the alias.

# Interactive operation...
 alias rm='rm -i'
 alias cp='cp -i'
 alias mv='mv -i'

Good ! In real world practices, I'd like these options to be there.


To be continued  ....


Interesting to see a from from Amazon, menting Human Error in Medicine, however looks not any for IT industry yet.