SQL Clause Is Coming to Town

Filtered for nice. Tested in prod.

One WHERE clause to filter for nice, run straight in prod without a test. Every engineer knows how that December goes. SQL CLAUSE IS COMING TO TOWN says it in big green capitals, under a four-line rhyme of our own.

For the DBA guarding production through the holidays, the developer with one quick fix before the break, and the team that still talks about last year’s December deploy.