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Michael • Edited

I've always coded things to make my life easier and there are many times I can think of where working through the steps and accessing external services or systems was like a puzzle and solving it and seeing it all run for the first time as I want was fun and a sort of - yeah, I did that - moment.

One of my best was scripting the database restore process that ran early on Sunday mornings after the weekly backups. It would pull down the latest prod copy, import it into our SQL DB Server, then sanitize the data so we never had Customer emails, CC #s, and addresses in there. That kept our QA lab up to date and allowed us to keep testing on the current DB schema.

oh, it was all in Perl....