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'ERP Down For Emergency Maintenance' Was Code For 'You Deleted What?'

The Register, Monday, November 3rd, 2025

One SQL slip-up is survivable. Not learning from the first mess meant change

Who, Me? Another Monday is upon us and The Register therefore presents a fresh instalment of Who, Me? It's the reader-contributed confessional column in which you admit to making mistakes, and explain how you made it out alive afterwards.

This week, meet a reader we'll Regomize as 'Holden' who told us a tale from a time his employer 'had just gone through implementation hell for a shiny new ERP system.'

'We went down the 'managed build' route with the software provider and the project overran by 12 months,' he lamented.

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