> taking responsibility for their own incompetence.

I think they’re doing that with this post? At least I find it hard to imagine myself writing down that I’d drunk a few glasses of wine and dropped the production database.

You cannot expect all engineers to be fully versed in the vagarities of database administration. Especially if they’re the only ones working on something.

Not really, they blamed 'complexity' and 'computer gremlins' rather than admitting that, perhaps, they made a shitty mistake.

> It’s a function that deletes the local database and creates all the required tables from scratch

Why would anyone have this? It's just dumb and embarrassing

> Why would anyone have this? It's just dumb and embarrassing

Anyone doing some form of decent integration testing?

Generally it’s a different database than the one used to develop locally, but the concept is the same.

If you don't put your database in a known state for tests they're not repeatable