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Do You Make These 5 Database Design Mistakes?

Thomas LaRockHead Geek

EVERYONE MAKES MISTAKES

SOMETIMES

and $ometimes

mistakes cost $M in

hardware and production

support

5 database design mistakes that will cost your company

Going BIG, just in case

going too BIG

NVARCHAR(MAX)

too soon

SIZE MATTERSclick to find out why

expecting that all features

…mean the same in all data platforms and clients!

SUCH AS A TIMESTAMP

expecting database generated identifiers

to be sequential

not using foreign keys

in your indexing strategy

CREATE INDEX[FK_Index]

ON [Orders]([Customer_ID],Distributor_ID])

Applying a surrogate key without havinga business key defined as an alternate

key

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Friends Don’t Let Friends Make These Mistakes

Want to save your company some money, some headaches for your end-users, and ensure data quality all at the same time?

Then avoid these five database design mistakes. It’s that simple.

Really.

You can read the full article at:http://thomaslarock.com/2012/01/do-you-make-these-5-database-design-mistakes/

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