Although they might have full text indexing and searching, databases and search engines/libraries work differently.

E.g. you come to online DVD shop and search for "Tom Criuse" (hint: misspelled surname). Every decent search engine (including Lucene library, not sure of others evaluated here) would yield a result, despite misspelling. I am not sure whether database fulltext thing would spit anything at all. It's simply built do do different job, that's it.

1. Convince your manager you need another "junior IT guy". Not necessarily full time - even a quarter time job would do it.
2. Hire a decent BOFH.
3. Profit!

Seriously, people will quickly start noticing the difference.

BP which runs the pipeline is not aware of any damage done to it. They've said the pipeline stopped working 6th Aug but only because of technical glitches which are completely unrelated to the war. There's some coverage here, if you can read Russian: http://lenta.ru/news/2008/08/10/bp/ (they reference AFP, however I was unable to find the actual reference)