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I tell ya, I have seen some tables and still been mystified. However, that only further proves your point. Those tables were a mess, and the underlying logic

I tell ya, I have seen some tables and still been mystified. However, that only further proves your point. Those tables were a mess, and the underlying logic was even worse.

theK 3y ago
Yeah, that quote does assume that the relational design in the schema is actually good.
- cafard 3y ago
  I don't think that Brooks was talking about tables (relations) in the RDBMS sense. Still, you point stands: you can have really mangy data structures, too.