After upgrading to MySQL 8 we noticed that the MySQL date function fails if given an empty string, and throws the following error message:
Incorrect DATE value: ''
In MySQL we had a condition in the WHERE clause which short circuit evaluated to not try the date function if a value was blank
WHERE Date_Added = '' OR (date(Date_Added) >= '')
But in MySQL 8 the date function appears to be evaluated for date literals even if that side of the OR statement isn't the side that gets short-circuited evaluated.
The solution appears to be to set the session-wide SQL mode to ALLOW_INVALID_DATES
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/58431136/how-to-fix-mysql-8-error-codes-1525-and-1292