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title: "Both Ways Bug Me"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/both-ways-bug-me-ixnffblrq
source_url: https://thedailywtf.com/articles/both-ways-bug-me
type: article
source: "The Daily WTF"
published: 2026-08-25T11:18:06.063Z
updated: 2026-08-25T11:18:22.108Z
tags: ["sql"]
reading_time: 2
upvotes: 3
comments: 0
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# Both Ways Bug Me

**[The Daily WTF](https://daily.dev/sources/thedailywtf)** · 2 min read · 3 upvotes · 0 comments

## Summary

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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