Your cardboard skyscraper analogy is fantastic. It does a good job capturing the tone of my disbelief. I'm disappointed to see there wasn't a response because

Your cardboard skyscraper analogy is fantastic. It does a good job capturing the tone of my disbelief. I'm disappointed to see there wasn't a response because I was pretty willing to entertain the notion of business-logic-as-normalized-tables. But I needed, like, any evidence.