The moment that started it
A colleague of mine was cleaning up some old records in a staging environment. Same query he'd run a dozen times before, except this time he was connected to production. He hit F5. No WHERE clause.
47,000 rows gone in milliseconds.
We recovered from a backup, lost about two hours, and nobody got fired. But it stuck with me:** SSMS will let you delete an entire production table with the same amount of friction as running a SELECT 1**. No pause, no confirmation, nothing. The tool that DBAs and backend developers spend all day in has zero built-in protection against the single most common way people destroy data.
So I built one.
