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>>Yes, most of the projects I work on would have development times greatly reduced by embracing NoSQL. Unfortunately not everybody I work with has come to the realization that you have. Building tables, fields, setting data types, setting indexes, configuring keys, blah blah blah is familiar and gives a sense of accomplishment; unfortunately, the original goal was to create useful software and not the perfect database.
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>Given that most of the projects I've done in the last 7 years have been data warehouse/data mart/OLAP projects, the goal "was" to build the perfect database. :)
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>But point taken.
Yep, we are in separate worlds now.
We routinely add 30% more work to a project because people are afraid of trying something new, or fear not being able to open SSMS and do an ad-hoc query (you can perform ad-hoc queries against NoSQL databases, but it's DIFFERENT!!)