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Air Force network meltdown offers lessons in upgrades, recovery

Staff September 09, 1999
A month later, some 5,000 users of a computer network run by the U.S. Air Force's 52nd Communications Squadron at Spangdahlem AB in Germany still felt the aftershocks of a database meltdown following routine maintenance in early August, illustrating the potential pitfalls in updating hardware or...

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