There is more to relationships than just girls, friends, family etc.
It’s something called a Relational Database System or RDBS (or something like that.) Plain English: think of Oracle, Microsoft’s Access or Apple/FileMaker’s FileMaker Pro. In the basic sense almost all of our data we use (even how our WordPress blog stores our content) is in a form of a database.
Now if you have a skills of a database admin (DBA) than yeah for you! Its a nightmare for someone like me who has a hard time dealing with black and white – in this case databases. Often my types of people struggle with the “gray” manner.
Databases require a LOT OF black and white logic. Even in the days of the mouse drive Graphical User Interfaces or GUI, you’d think it be easier.
Well not so for me.
Relationships is a key to integrating other databases or other datapoints together. If I want to pool a general ledger database and tie my payables DB and my receivables to make that general ledger, it would require me to create a relationship and run those damned algorithms and other mathematical crapage to do just one task.
Its just crazy how RDBS is in almost everything we use and you don’t even realize. Back 10 or even 20 years ago it was in those logical setups like the billing, the customer service, etc. but now its used from executing those “lower thirds” on your newscast to most modern websites (and you wonder why your laptop suddenly became a fire hazard…)
It’s crazy. I have a hard time engaging a relationship with databases. It’s just too complicated.