Design reviews are an important facet of the system development lifecycle for database applications. It is during the design review that all aspects of the database and application code are reviewed ...

Good software habits apply to databases too. Trust in these little design tips to build a useful, rot-resistant database schema. It is a universal truth that everything in software eventually rots.

Most organizations spend a great deal of time thinking about database performance. DBAs tune SQL, design indexes, and monitor workloads to ensure that applications run quickly and efficiently.