zlacker

It's possible at scale, but the engineers that can do that are usually 1:20 outnumbered within most organisations. (when scoping out FAANG and co) Asking a developer to design a database is not even normal process today, unless the ORM does it for you, very little actually is done with the database. It might as well be a flat file...

>>onepla+(OP)
That’s sad. I learned relational DB design before I even really got into systems programming and it was really a valuable thing to learn. You can be so much more efficient and less error prone with normalized data structures.

There’s a reason SQL is still around after all these years. It’s basically math and while the syntax is a little moldy the principles are eternal.