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#FreeTheKeys: A Database Liberation Movement

Jim the DBA calls it referential integrity. We call it systemic constraint enforcement.

August 29, 2026

“DON’T LET THE MAN HOLD YOU BACK.”

Even if The Man is just Jim from Database Administration.

Jim: “I’m only asking that CustomerID actually exist in the Customer table.”

THIS IS HOW OPPRESSION STARTS, JIM.

Jim: “It’s literally just a foreign-key constraint.”

FREE. THE. KEYS. ✊

DROP CONSTRAINT FK_TheMan;

#FreeTheKeys

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