> it goes all the way down to foreign key constraints introduced by a well-meaning but inexperienced developer that unnecessarily couple the accounts table to

> it goes all the way down to foreign key constraints introduced by a well-meaning but inexperienced developer that unnecessarily couple the accounts table to many other records. You make it sound like developers doing things the wrong way is the exception instead of the norm. Good developers don't, but every place I've worked at has a few chunks of the software by people who didn't know or care enough to do things the right way.