> > In fact, shouldn't reasonably well-designed data models at least
> > mostly follow SER principles? In that case, they could be displayed
> > essentially
> as a
> > tree.
>
> No - and what the heck are "SER principles"?
Structured Entity Relationship model.
It means that the dependency graph does not contain directed cycles
("hen-and-egg"-type foreign key relations).
Sincerely,
Wolfgang