Cross Product

Staring at the terminal
Waiting for a result set
Unusual query time
Getting anxious, cruching connection

Examining the WHERE clause
All the joins seem in order
Wait, a forgotten table
Query must be terminated

Cross product, rows to infinity
Cross product, malformed query

Syslogs is filling up,
all users coming to a stop
I must truncate the log
Before my head starts rolling

Flood of calls to support
Yes, we know, connection's down
Just go down, have a smoke
While we fix the database

Cross product, rows to infinity
Cross product, malformed query