Are database records a Hacker’s Handbook?

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Read about the court case in question:

http://www.omaha.com/news/crime/a-key-question-in-digital-data-legal-challenge-public-records/article_4690a9b4-7180-5551-950a-c5d8f649b2f3.html

Thoughts

• Are Open Source Projects insecure because they publish their table structure? These 1.5M results on GitHub suggest software engineers think otherwise.
• But what about SQL Injection? Are those attacks are easier knowing the database table structure. Not really, no. Finding out whether a server can be exploited using SQL Injection is done without knowledge of the database structure. In fact, injections like ' or '1'='1 exploit basic boolean expressions, not table structure. Once you know the server is exploitable, it’s easy to fetch the table structure assuming it’s not a Blind injection.
• Is it easier to steal books from the library if they use the Dewey Decimal system? Is it easier to steal things from buildings with public record floor plans? Okay, enough analogies.
• I’d be curious if the case would be more likely to succeed if the request did not include stored procedures, which are closer to code rather than data.
• Regardless, government could transform the data into a non SQL format (or require the plaintiff to do so before publishing). Even simpler, the table structure could be obfuscated in some way.