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Because the testing pipeline isn't the real database.

Anyone that knows a database well can bring it down with a innocent looking statement that no one else will blink at.

Sure, but everyone knows humans end up bringing down the database too by writing an innocent looking test query nobody else blinks at, which is why you end up needing a testing strategy for ANY SQL before YOLO'ing into prod.

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