Maybe it’s supposed to imply that boyfriend is an attribute of the particular girl. Like saying she isn’t someone’s boyfriend. It’s probably a holdover from the original data architecture and nobody ever bothered to modify the table later on in case there’s a select somewhere that expects that field to exist.
That structure doesn’t handle polyamorous and cheating relationships very well. It should probably have and (select top 1 1 from dbo.relationships r where r.partner_a != GIRLS.id or r.partner_b != GIRLS.id) which would handle also LGBT+ relationships or relationships that are better represented as a graph.
The relationships table should also have enum for relationship type. It might be friends, family, platonic relations etc.
Also might want to check sex_drive to handle ace gals and something to do with kinsey scale not to bother lesbians.
One of the reasons women will find this repugnant is because they didn’t normalize their tables. Should be
boyfriend_id is null.For that matter, why is waist size a Boolean?
They allowed business logic to pollute the DB table, and “small waist” is a defined range in some confluence doc somewhere.
Or this is an analytics database where these are well-defined dimensions added for segmentation logic. 🤷
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Or, if you allow for polyamory and non-hetero relationships, you probably need a rel table (and some joins in the query).
Maybe GIRLS is just a view…
Maybe it’s supposed to imply that boyfriend is an attribute of the particular girl. Like saying she isn’t someone’s boyfriend. It’s probably a holdover from the original data architecture and nobody ever bothered to modify the table later on in case there’s a select somewhere that expects that field to exist.
That structure doesn’t handle polyamorous and cheating relationships very well. It should probably have
and (select top 1 1 from dbo.relationships r where r.partner_a != GIRLS.id or r.partner_b != GIRLS.id)which would handle also LGBT+ relationships or relationships that are better represented as a graph.The relationships table should also have enum for relationship type. It might be friends, family, platonic relations etc. Also might want to check sex_drive to handle ace gals and something to do with kinsey scale not to bother lesbians.
Are you really doing relational data if it has nulls though?
Yes.