But the ting is, you have no idea if not even a single GET request fires of an internal batch job to do X on the DB. I mean, there are plenty of systems in pla

But the ting is, you have no idea if not even a single GET request fires of an internal batch job to do X on the DB. I mean, there are plenty of systems in place who somehow do this (Wordpress cron I think) so that's not unheard of. For me, still a nope: Do not run a against prod DB especially if the live system accounts for 20M yearly revenue.