I have been working on a site that had MySQL strict mode enabled. One person had a long user agent string that was logged in our log table and unfortunately the user agent s
If you have a need to do so, failing queries, and you do not have knowledge or budget to fix it - then yes.
If anyone is asking this is how to disable strict mode properly, just by adding this in MySQL config:
sql_mode=NO_ENGINE_SUBSTITUTION innodb_strict_mode=0