Waaay back in the .com boom days of the late 90s I was working at a place where the CTO did something like:
UPDATE users SET password = '23r23r23rdsf';
Somehow he missed the "WHERE email = 'someone';" I forget exactly how many users had their password changed that day. For some reason (maybe MySQL didn't let you cancel an UPDATE like that way back in the old days?) to stop that query he ran into the other room and unplugged the MySQL server. The PROD server. It's funny to look back on that now, but at the time... oh boy, total panic.
UPDATE users SET password = '23r23r23rdsf';
Somehow he missed the "WHERE email = 'someone';" I forget exactly how many users had their password changed that day. For some reason (maybe MySQL didn't let you cancel an UPDATE like that way back in the old days?) to stop that query he ran into the other room and unplugged the MySQL server. The PROD server. It's funny to look back on that now, but at the time... oh boy, total panic.