> its advantages at a fundamental level I used to be a dev and I wonder what you have in mind here ??? For me the two important points with a DB are: - entit

> its advantages at a fundamental level I used to be a dev and I wonder what you have in mind here ??? For me the two important points with a DB are: - entities connections (foreign keys), data types and a few other things are specified declaratively (so you don't have to think about enforcing them, the DB does it for you, so you never, ever forget). So I liked to have very strong DB models (no denormalization :-)) as the ultimate line of defense of my data quality. In my business, that was worth millions of euros (and politics). - transactions: Read commited was good enough in most cases (clients didn't access the same data) adn sometimes serializable was necessary (for example, toi generate ID's unique acorss the database and across all the clients)