i hate when people use great tools improperly. what is the point of using SQL if you're gonna have a thousand tables with redundant data?

To increase job opportunities and good luck to any future colleague who has to normalize that database xD

@Grumm the ridiculous part is the server reaching full disk and them going "oh no, we need a new server"

@darksideofyay Wait what ??
That server must be totally not suited for a database.
Ours has like 600 GB space for the database and 90 GB ram :P

@Grumm they have these super tiny local servers... they've tried to negotiate access to a bigger one, but no luck yet

I’m experiencing the same frustration currently with an SQL DB that has a bunch of tables that are very loosely related to each other (barely any FKs are used) and when you do manage to figure out how they are related, you’re writing queries with things like JOIN (…) ON t1.name = t2.description.
Like WTF?? Why would we ever use ids as relations between tables when we can use a VARCHAR(255) description column and connect it to a VARCHAR(100) name column. Makes perfect sense