So in order to make up for his shortcomings with respect to understanding both the structure and the underlying principles, he would instead have you compromise the design of your system.

That seems logical to me since to give pause to such an idea, one would have to understand the consequences. And of course, to understand the consequences, one would have to understand the principles.

I guess it is good for you that this person is "running" other aspects of your company. For your sake, I hope he is not "running" it into the ground...

I am amazed at the preponderance of incompetence that exists in Corporate America....< s >...

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>Hello John,
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>He wants to PRETEND he understands the underlying structure and principals but in reality is too busy running other aspects of the company. This was just meant to be a humorous jab at the situation many of us face :-)
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>Bob
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>>1. S/He does not understand basic relational database principles.
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>>or
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>>2. S/He does not understand the database model.