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		theK on April 30, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Waterloo Style Yeah, that quote does assume that the relational design in the schema is actually good.

cafard on May 1, 2023 [–]

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.

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