I found the relational beauty in being able to "store every unique value just once." It resonated with the programming concept of "write a function so that you

I found the relational beauty in being able to "store every unique value just once." It resonated with the programming concept of "write a function so that you don't need to change things in many places." This in turn gave me a lens to viewing how businesses operate independent of what systems you put on top of the data. Does this mean SQL is pretty? Not really, but it gets the job done. Though I did have to spend a lot of time optimizing SQL to force certain query optimizations. Does this mean relational should be used everywhere? No, but it has a distinct place. I think beer is beautiful too, but I won't drink it for breakfast with the in-laws.