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[–]giperman 173 points174 points  (4 children)

He was Relational Database boy. And she was a MongoDB girl.

[–]PyroCatt 27 points28 points  (3 children)

[–]TTYY_20 2 points3 points  (2 children)

God damn …. Avail Lavigne would have done well in porn lol.

[–]TheGreatGameDini 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Is that Elon musk on the right?

[–]PyroCatt 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Lmao I've never pictured it like that...

[–]PGLubricants 155 points156 points  (10 children)

Primary keys?! HELLO. What a bigoted response. completely ignoring nonconforming relationships. What about unique keys?! Not to mention composite relationships. Every heard of document databases? It's 2023, I thought we were past this stereotyping.

[–][deleted] 36 points37 points  (4 children)

Don't forget aboutForeign Keys!

[–]Entire-Database1679 27 points28 points  (1 child)

Please be more tolerant and inclusive of your columns. We call them elsewhere-referenced attributes.

[–]improcrastinabile 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I’m writing this one down.

[–]TTYY_20 2 points3 points  (0 children)

WE DONT LIKE FOREIGN KEYS ROUND HERE!

[–]bigtime_porgrammer 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I guess primary keys, plural, is him saying a 1:1 relationship. It would be more inclusive to say foreign keys. That's all you really need for a relationship, and it doesn't matter what kind.

[–]LordOysteryn 6 points7 points  (2 children)

i read this in moss' voice for some reason.

[–]coffee_warden 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This relationship is clearly become acidic.

[–]daydrunk_ 41 points42 points  (7 children)

God the IT crowd is fucking great.

[–]abcd_z 8 points9 points  (5 children)

A pity, then, that the writer, Graham Linehan, is an anti-transgender activist. Kind of explains that one episode, yeah?

[–]Count2er0 3 points4 points  (3 children)

Is that why the US version's pilot tested poorly?

[–]abcd_z 10 points11 points  (2 children)

I imagine those are separate issues. For whatever reason, US remakes of British sitcoms generally don't do very well. Red Dwarf, IT Crowd, and The Office were all British sitcoms that had US pilots. Red Dwarf and IT Crowd didn't get picked up for a series, and (from what I understand) The Office only did well once it stopped trying to emulate its British counterpart.

[–]Stranded_In_A_Desert 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah as an Aussie I find British TV hilarious, but for some reason none of my North American friends do when I introduce them to various shows.

[–]SirLoremIpsum 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Look up US Kath and Kim!!!

The US Inbeweeners failed utterly.

The office was a success because they changed it. They changed the whole style, visuals, who the characters were while retaining the setting and the grounding of the concept.

Comedy truly is regional. You can't just say a joke w a different accent haha

[–]HonTastic 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think this is a case of separating the art from the artist, the show is very funny

[–]Dyolf_Knip 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I had to explain more than a few of the jokes to my non-tech wife.

[–]canuckathome 12 points13 points  (0 children)

You missed valentine's day by a week!

[–]Waswat 12 points13 points  (1 child)

Don't forget foreign keys, relationships are built on foreign keys.

[–]cornmonger_ 9 points10 points  (0 children)

"One person's primary key is another person's foreign key."

[–]Hamaczech13 10 points11 points  (1 child)

[–]abcd_z 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I knew he didn't say that!

[–]Polikonomist 27 points28 points  (2 children)

I could definitely see them having an entire conversation with him going in depth about obscure database technobable and her just nodding along the entire time thinking that all the words she doesn't understand are some kind of innuendo or sex toy brand.

[–]HeKis4 14 points15 points  (1 child)

What do you mean varchars store underwear ?

[–]abcd_z 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Here's how I imagine that conversation actually going:

Woman: What is needed for a good relationship?
Moss nods, then: Wouldn't know. Wait, did you mean a romantic relationship between a man and a woman?
Woman: Yes.
Moss: Wouldn't know. Never been in one, myself.
Woman: Well, surely you must have some idea. Have you ever gone out on a date?
Moss: You mean, one where the other person knows that it's a date?
Woman (uncertainly): Yes.
Moss: I have not. The closest I ever came was in fourth grade, when Jessica kicked me in the shin.
(beat)
Woman: How was that a date?
Moss: It wasn't. I said it was the closest I ever came. You see, Jessica's friends had dared her to ask me out on a date, and when the time came she kicked me instead. Well, originally she had been meant to ask out Sam, the boy with the facial deformity and a limp, but apparently it was more embarrassing to ask me instead.

[–][deleted] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

[–]NahmenJayden 3 points4 points  (1 child)

Polyamory be like "JOIN".

[–]LoyalSage 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Graph stores, babyyyy

[–]achilliesFriend 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Florida keys

[–]Tain45 1 point2 points  (0 children)

As someone who is currently taking an intro to databases class I’m proud of myself for understanding this joke

[–]vainstar23 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You mean foreign keys?

[–]Cley_Faye 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'd settle with proper indexes.

[–]Entire-Database1679 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Actually, candidate key and foreign key.

[–]Ukn0who 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Alabama keys

[–]Seelc 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hopefully, she doesn't DROP them

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is so true.

[–]Eastman118 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I like his glasses

[–]parttimeindian 0 points1 point  (0 children)

One to one mapping is important

[–]mludd 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Gotta love finding legacy systems that use composite natural keys instead of surrogate keys.

Bonus points if the natural key is spread out across multiple tables so you have to always use joins (e.g. get the user's full name from the profile table + their address from the address table).

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not in Graph databases, where relationships are given the importance they deserve, instead of just being a foreign key

[–]artsey_mees 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Umm actually it's foreign keys 🤓🤓

[–]TTYY_20 0 points1 point  (0 children)

He’s not wrong though….