You rolled back the bad deploy and the error rate got worse. What did the rollback break?

Code rolled back and the database did not. The old version is now running against a schema it has never seen, and that is a worse incident than the one you were trying to end.

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Code rolled back and the database did not. The old version is now running against a schema it has never seen, and that is a worse incident than the one you were trying to end.

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