If it’s Microsoft SQL you should be able to replay the transaction log. But you should be doing something like daily full backups and hourly incremental or differential backups to avoid this situation in the first place.

That’s why when your job hires new people right out of college they have no idea what they’re doing and now must be trained how to actually do the job. “What, you mean we aren’t writing this enterprise application in python!?”

Just call it “state management” and nobody will even care.

The guy is definitely a genius.

Step 1: Don’t murder your wife