our devs created smash hits such as

  NounFunction
  NounFunctionTemporal
  NounCollectionFunction

  FunctionNoun_Function
  FunctionNoun_FunctionItem

  Noun_Collection
  Noun_Collection_Function
  Noun_Collection_FunctionItem

i've taken out duplicating combinations where different teams wanted same things over time, but never looked up what others had done before and decided to spin their own...

Don’t forget

Noun_Collection_Function_20200406 Noun_Collection_Function_20200320_Backup

And

Noun_Collection_Function_ForJim

I would be having words with the DBA about this. If there is a DBA. No DBA I would hire would allow this silliness. At least not in the actual application schema.

> At least not in the actual application schema.

And that's how the scratchpad schema became mission-critical ;)

Hey, at least you don't store gender in the address table, where one person can have multiple addresses.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27842820

That will explain a lot probably about many things!

He said usually.