Database Builders, Code Generators, On-Topic?

There is a topic close to my heart which I do not see discussed here much, and I wonder if it is considered topical. Briefly, I spend my days designing and implementing data-driven systems, wherein we use a collection of tables that describe tables, columns, keys, references and so forth. We use this to generate both DDL at install time and DML at run-time, and also client code (pure under-the-hood, nothing cosmetic).

I have not seen this discussed here much, and wonder if such discussions are welcome. If not, is there a more appropriate forum?

In an effort to give some rigor to our design strategies, I have coined [1] the term "Scalar Complete" to refer to the insistence that all meta-data be composed entirely of scalars, meaning that meta-data must never be an expression that is evaluated according to the syntax rules of a language (the expression "price * qty" may look like passable scalar data, but it is not), and must never require parsing.

We have had great success with this approach for C/S apps, and I would love to discuss such projects with like-minded inviduals, but as I say I do not see a lot of discussion of these types of things, either here or anywhere else that I can find. So again, I am wondering if such discussions would be considered topical here, or if there are other forums known for this.

Thanks.

[1] At least, I think I have. Google searches have turned up no other

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Kenneth Downs