{"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. 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 … Continue reading Gay marriage: the database engineering perspective<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Gay marriage: the database engineering perspective #SysAdmin #WebDev #databases #LGBT #society #culture","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,18,133,62],"tags":[429,1559,2418,3269,683],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-27480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-programming","category-sysadmin","category-technology","tag-culture","tag-databases","tag-humor","tag-lgbt","tag-society"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t