do you-make-these-5-database-design-mistakes
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Look, everyone makes mistakes. It’s true. But not all of us have the chance to make mistakes that end up costing millions of dollars in hardware and production support costs. Any one of these five mistakes will add additional costs to your company. It’s guaranteed. The costs may be hardware related (extra disk space, network bandwidth), which tend to add up quickly for any shop. The costs may also be support related (bad performance, database re-design, report creation, etc.), and they add up very quickly as well. 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.TRANSCRIPT
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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
© 2014 SOLARWINDS WORLDWIDE, LLC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
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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