Why were they able to destroy your database repeatedly? Where there no backups? I can imagine they might not understand, but wouldn't you have sneaked some backups in a corner some where?
Yeah, I had some CSVs backed up in a dark corner they couldn't touch the first time, but I didn't have a full dump because, honestly, I thought they'd never use it again, and it was highly unlikely they'd ever find someone who can do SQL after I left.
The second time was some messy issue with encoding so the backups nor CSVs wouldn't load in. After trying absolutely everything I could find, I just build a script that wrapped all the backed up data in INSERT clauses and sent a raw .sql file over. I couldn't physically go in at the time, so I was trying to be phone support on my own trashy product.
