I agree, if there is proper testing in lower environments which includes data sets that are similar to production then this should not really be necessary. On

I agree, if there is proper testing in lower environments which includes data sets that are similar to production then this should not really be necessary. On the flip side, we have had issues in production that really slowed down our service or even took it down. In those situations it is much more preferable to stop those specific queries than to have the entire service unresponsive.