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title: "Something to keep your mind busy on the weekend"
url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2003/5/9/something-to-keep-your-mind-busy-on-the-weekend.md"
canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2003/5/9/something-to-keep-your-mind-busy-on-the-weekend.html"
published: "2003-05-09T11:32:00"
updated: "2003-05-09T11:32:00"
tags: [".Net Quotations"]
author: "Roy Osherove"
description: "Frans posts an interesting observation on the current problems with relational database, and possible futuristic ways of dealing with them. A tough read, but insightful. Some of the things I've always taken for granted…"
usage: "Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page)."
license: "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
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# Something to keep your mind busy on the weekend

By Roy Osherove May 9, 2003 In [.Net Quotations](https://osherove.com/blog/category/net-quotations)

**Historical article** · Originally published May 9, 2003; technical details may be outdated.

[Frans](http://dotnetweblogs.com/fbouma/) posts an [interesting observation](http://dotnetweblogs.com/fbouma/posts/6767.aspx) on the current problems with relational database, and possible futuristic ways of dealing with them. A tough read, but insightful.

Some of the things I've always taken for granted in relational DB development are brought to question here and really make you think about alternative ways of working with data.

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## About the author

**Roy Osherove**: Senior Solutions Architect at AWS working on AI for production and AI-driven development; author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership, with about 20 years of consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery.

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Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page). License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/