> developers underutilize the capabilities of the massively advanced database engines So true. There are so many amazing, powerful features in all of the major

> developers underutilize the capabilities of the massively advanced database engines So true. There are so many amazing, powerful features in all of the major players. Also: updatable views are amazing. With query rewriting (whatever you vendor calls it) you can affect some truly material changes to the system without any changes to the client applications. An example would be implementing temporal relations.