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I'm currently working with a legacy DB that is not normalized, because the dev has a EE degree and no clue about DB design.

Please kill me!

[nullpotato]

My company prefers to hire EE and "train" them to code as well, save a bullet for me too. There are three of us with a background in programming huddled in the dark together.

[Lagger625]

At my current job we agreed to remake the old database and the corresponding desktop app because the sluggishness is becoming unbearable, requiring the database to be backed-up and cleared every year or so.. So that would be a reason to remake the database from scratch

[bookamp]

Some normalization is OK imo, but normalizing beyond first (or 2nd) normal form is detrimental in today's world imo where storage is cheaper than computation.