{"id":27480,"date":"2017-03-31T12:18:43","date_gmt":"2017-03-31T10:18:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/?p=27480"},"modified":"2017-03-31T12:18:43","modified_gmt":"2017-03-31T10:18:43","slug":"gay-marriage-the-database-engineering-perspective","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2017\/03\/31\/gay-marriage-the-database-engineering-perspective\/","title":{"rendered":"Gay marriage: the database engineering perspective"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Gay marriage: the database engineering perspective<\/a> is a rather old article on how gay marriage (and other types of marriages) can affect technology, but somehow I missed it for all these years.<\/p>\n

It’s interesting from a variety of perspectives – technical, social, and cultural. \u00a0It’s also somewhat tongue in cheek, yet insightful and thought-provoking. \u00a0Irrelevant of your views on the subject, I recommend this read. \u00a0Where else will you find 14 database schema designs trying to solve the same problem.<\/p>\n

The legal ramifications of what I’m about to describe are unguessable. I have no idea what rights a civil union like the ones which would be possible below would have, nor do I have any idea what kind of transhuman universe would require so complex a system. This is the marriage database schema to take us up to the thirty-first century, people.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

If databases are that difficult to adjust, I can’t even imagine the effort needed for humans…<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n

Gay marriage: the database engineering perspective is a rather old article on how gay marriage (and other types of marriages) can affect technology, but somehow I missed it for all these years. 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