Coming from #2479885: Access denied; you need (at least one of) the SUPER privilege(s) for this operation , it's pointed out that we're a little over-aggressive in our mysqldump filtering. Specifically, if the body of a node, block, or whatever, were to contain the kind of problematic SQL, that line would also get dropped. See the following for further discussion and a possible solution: https://www.drupal.org/node/2479885#comment-9901197