Both Ways Bug Me
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A production SQL query contained leftover debugging flags disguised as tautological boolean conditions, such as (1 = 0 OR (1 = 1 AND ...)), which let someone toggle whether the query returns all rows or filtered rows. The pattern likely originated as an analyst's ad hoc query that got frozen into a stored procedure, with the undocumented flags never touched since release, highlighting a broader observability gap in the codebase.
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