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by neeleshs 831 days ago
Congratulations on the launch! This looks pretty neat, though there are many similar products.

When non-technical/semi-technical people are exposed to the database, the biggest issues come from two areas

* their lack of grasp on data models, and modeling in general. This stumps them every time they see bridge tables, many-to-ones, and joins. Or when they need to answer a question, and the answer is not obvious from the base tables

* databases in general are very normalized, cryptically named (tables and columns) and have too much evolutionary baggage (both from a schema and data point of view) - except for in new/small systems.

These then become organizational problems rather than tooling problems.

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I totally agree. I’m very interested in some kind of data modeling representation that’s a lot more user-friendly.

The core problem as I understand it is the difference between references and values.