Well, I mean, the good news is that if you write your own database system, you'll have so many other bugs in the way that you'll likely never reach this particu

Well, I mean, the good news is that if you write your own database system, you'll have so many other bugs in the way that you'll likely never reach this particular one! I suggest it can be called the Sirius Database. "It is very easy to be blinded to the essential uselessness of [the new database you just wrote] by the sense of achievement you get from getting them to work at all. In other words—and this is the rock solid principle on which the whole of the Corporation's Galaxy-wide success is founded—their fundamental design flaws are completely hidden by their superficial design flaws."