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Switching connexion string in local to target specific envioments (Eather for test, performance or bug resolve). (And it's not "just SQL db" change)
And I've already have half-backed custom tool to do it, I just need 4 hours of motivation to make it ctually working.
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Restore in Azure database to a prices date and time to check the state of customer data, mostly to prouve them that error is not in our tool, but between keyboard and chair on thier end. -
My most common action: despairing at awful code and cursing the names of long gone developers I've never met!
There be cowboys/gals/in-betweens in these parts 🤠 🏜️🐎
How to automate: build self testing code so I can refactor bad code into helpful code 🪄✨ without being hindered by terrible fear of breaking system behaviour -
restart Debian 50 times because WSL is a POS and kill server never works. always suspends instead of terminating ports.
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