Now wouldn't it be funny if you got them to drop a table this way?

Wouldn't you assign readonly permissions to the account used to fulfill these requests?

Ideally, but until someone asks for it the first time, they probably don't even have an account for the purpose. So, an irritated DBA who has myriad other backlog tasks probably runs it on a copy if smart, and production if lazy or in a hurry. Would not surprise me in the slightest if an important table was dropped in this way.

Yes, but if they're not sanitizing inputs, they might not have set permissions wisely either.

This brings me back. Anyone remember Future Crew demos?

I do. They ushered a new era on the PC, where PC finally had something that could compare with the demo quality of Amiga demos.

To be more concrete, it was "Second Reality" that they did it with:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFv7mHTf0nA

and here's Future Crew making it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIIBRr31DIU

Europe and Summer school holidays. Perfect time to code.

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