Half our ids are called ‘number’ sooo. Also our entire in-database translation system relies on guids that are not foreign keys. The only reason our ORM doesn’t flip on that is because it’s completely custom made with semi-autogenerated stored procedures resolving that translation in-database (using yet another SP).

We are at 2696 stored procedures right now, most of those are simple CRUD (can’t do straight selects on our tables because of the translations, so every select with different parameters is a SP)

I had to rewrite an iterative implementation I made for an exercise in school because the solution they prepared used recursion. I’m still mad about that. Admittedly the recursive solution was a tiny bit more elegant, but my solution worked too!