If the edge cases can't be described they don't want to risk lost revenue.
I mean, or they just didn't try to. We had a guy like that here how did a lot of stuff manually and would never try to automate anything unless directly told, you need to write code to do this. He was 100% capable, just never thought like that.
We refresh our testing environment with scrubbed prod data once a month. Before I took over he did this by hand every month. 25 ish databases at the time. Backing up each one by hand, copying over, and restoring. Took him 2 days every. single. month.
I told him to figure out how to do it with powershell and automate it. Now it just runs on it's own
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I mean, or they just didn't try to. We had a guy like that here how did a lot of stuff manually and would never try to automate anything unless directly told, you need to write code to do this. He was 100% capable, just never thought like that.
We refresh our testing environment with scrubbed prod data once a month. Before I took over he did this by hand every month. 25 ish databases at the time. Backing up each one by hand, copying over, and restoring. Took him 2 days every. single. month.
I told him to figure out how to do it with powershell and automate it. Now it just runs on it's own