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I think it is a great idea. If the users can create the application, play around with it then they will start to learn to think in databases terms. It may be a mess to begin with, and it might have to be rewritten completely by a professional application developer, but the database created by the user can be used like a sketch, like a movie director might hand over squiggly lines to an art director and 1 year later a full 3D rendered movie appears. With the current tools available, I think there's too many cases of great programming, but useless workflow, because the developers don't work with the data, processes and policies daily, so they don't understand what makes a tool great. For instance all the Customer Support systems I have seen are based on managements needs, not the support staff, and therefore it is often a pain to use. With this all stakeholders could make quick "sketch" of how they would like to see it work.
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