SQL Database Designing

Reviewing about designing SQL database… instead of a tutorial, I think its faster to relearn it by this list of Ten Common Database Design Mistakes which are:

  1. Poor design/planning
  2. Ignoring normalization
  3. Poor naming standards
  4. Lack of documentation
  5. One table to hold all domain values
  6. Using identity/guid columns as your only key
  7. Not using SQL facilities to protect data integrity
  8. Not using stored procedures to access data
  9. Trying to build generic objects
  10. Lack of testing

Tutorial on MySQL is here.

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