[PaulDavisThe1st]

> The entire industry’s understanding of the power of the relational model has been destroyed by SQL, which is the largest foot gun of so many in our industry.

When people say stuff like this, I think of traditional post&beam construction guys complaining about the way that stud framing has destroyed the industry's understanding of the power of "real construction". Whether or not that's true, stud framing has been used to build homes for on the order of a million times more people than post&beam. Perhaps it is true that stud framing obscures a deeper understanding of the nature of wood, joinery, loads and so forth, but sometimes the point is just to build a shit ton of houses, cheaply, efficiently, effectively, knowing that changes in requirements will make most houses largely redundant before (most) stud framed houses are gone.

SQL: shallow, weak, wrong, incomplete, misleading, and how the world gets built.