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Re:We do not use foreign keys (2016) by dkhenry on Friday November 08, 2019 @06:33PM (#21488079)
Well here is one case of a large scale user migrating

https://eng.uber.com/mysql-migration/

And there are tons more. In fact here is a tool to help you do it

https://github.com/pivotal-cf/pg2mysql

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Re:We do not use foreign keys (2016) by spookthesunset on Friday November 08, 2019 @06:55PM (#21488272)
Uber also has a giant team dedicated to re-inventing slack. I'd take their engineering prowess with a grain of salt.

Lots of people do dumb things for dumb reasons.

Most developers I interact with, even the really good ones, are profoundly stupid when it comes to databases.

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