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by 082349872349872 1408 days ago
or, from ~15 years earlier, with vocabulary to match: "Show me your flowcharts, and conceal your tables, and I shall continue to be mystified; show me your tables and I won’t usually need your flowcharts: they’ll be obvious."
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aka "Representation is the essence of programming" - Fred Brooks, Mythical Man Month
Unless your tables and column names are constrained to 8 characters. =/