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It should never be at the point where some random person can impact a server.

That's what read replicas with read-only access are for. Production db servers should not be open to random queries and usage by people. That's only for the app to use.

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Unless you have a much more regimented code review process than anywhere I've seen, "a random person" can impact prod quite easily by introducing a bad query into the app. Since ORMs are rampant, it's probably heavily obfuscated to begin with, so they won't even see the raw SQL. At best, they'll have run it on stage, where the DB size is probably so tiny that its performance issues go unnoticed.

How it should be and how it is, that depends on who is the decision maker. If the decision maker is a technical person, there is no gap, but in my case the decision maker is a non-technical manager with no competence to make such decisions, but that is the way the company is organized. So letting people use AI to dig through a 1 TB database is not a good idea, while not using AI prevents them to even try. Security by oblivion.

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