Someone hogging the database with an analytics query is a honest error because of an insidious footgun inherent in the technology stack. On the other hand, the

Someone hogging the database with an analytics query is a honest error because of an insidious footgun inherent in the technology stack. On the other hand, the CTO permitted access to the production database ... why? To learn MySQL, it would have been sufficient to set up a local instance. Or connect to testing/staging environments to get at some data.