第一个问题?他们只在玩具数据库上测试。因此，他们不知道当数据库变大时，他们的SQL将会爬行，并且稍后必须有人来修复它(您可以听到的声音是我咬牙切齿的声音)。

认为他们是dba和数据建模师/设计人员，而他们在这些领域没有任何正式的灌输。 认为他们的项目不需要DBA，因为这些东西都很简单/琐碎。 未能正确区分应该在数据库中完成的工作和应该在应用程序中完成的工作。 未验证备份，或未备份。 在他们的代码中嵌入原始SQL。

如果您正在使用复制(MySQL)，以下函数是不安全的，除非您正在使用基于行的复制。

USER(), CURRENT_USER() (or CURRENT_USER), UUID(), VERSION(), LOAD_FILE(), and RAND()

参见:http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/replication-features-functions.html

有一件事我想补充，学习使用分析函数，如分区BY, RANK, DENSE_RANK (Oracle)。它们对于复杂的查询是绝对必要的。

其他建议是，如果可能的话，在您的开发团队中有一个专门的数据库开发人员，他应该是SQL、数据库建模、调优等方面的专家(但不是DBA)。这种技能是一笔巨大的财富。

开发人员所犯的关键数据库设计和编程错误

Selfish database design and usage. Developers often treat the database as their personal persistent object store without considering the needs of other stakeholders in the data. This also applies to application architects. Poor database design and data integrity makes it hard for third parties working with the data and can substantially increase the system's life cycle costs. Reporting and MIS tends to be a poor cousin in application design and only done as an afterthought. Abusing denormalised data. Overdoing denormalised data and trying to maintain it within the application is a recipe for data integrity issues. Use denormalisation sparingly. Not wanting to add a join to a query is not an excuse for denormalising. Scared of writing SQL. SQL isn't rocket science and is actually quite good at doing its job. O/R mapping layers are quite good at doing the 95% of queries that are simple and fit well into that model. Sometimes SQL is the best way to do the job. Dogmatic 'No Stored Procedures' policies. Regardless of whether you believe stored procedures are evil, this sort of dogmatic attitude has no place on a software project. Not understanding database design. Normalisation is your friend and it's not rocket science. Joining and cardinality are fairly simple concepts - if you're involved in database application development there's really no excuse for not understanding them.

相关子查询导致的性能差

大多数情况下，您希望避免相关子查询。如果子查询中存在对外部查询的列的引用，则子查询是相关的。当发生这种情况时，对于返回的每一行至少执行一次子查询，如果在应用包含相关子查询的条件之后应用其他条件，则可以执行更多次。

请原谅这个不自然的示例和Oracle语法，但假设您想要找到自上次商店每天销售额低于10,000美元以来在任何商店中雇用的所有员工。

select e.first_name, e.last_name
from employee e
where e.start_date > 
        (select max(ds.transaction_date)
         from daily_sales ds
         where ds.store_id = e.store_id and
               ds.total < 10000)

本例中的子查询通过store_id与外部查询相关联，并将对系统中的每个员工执行。优化此查询的一种方法是将子查询移动到内联视图。

select e.first_name, e.last_name
from employee e,
     (select ds.store_id,
             max(s.transaction_date) transaction_date
      from daily_sales ds
      where ds.total < 10000
      group by s.store_id) dsx
where e.store_id = dsx.store_id and
      e.start_date > dsx.transaction_date

In this example, the query in the from clause is now an inline-view (again some Oracle specific syntax) and is only executed once. Depending on your data model, this query will probably execute much faster. It would perform better than the first query as the number of employees grew. The first query could actually perform better if there were few employees and many stores (and perhaps many of stores had no employees) and the daily_sales table was indexed on store_id. This is not a likely scenario but shows how a correlated query could possibly perform better than an alternative.

我曾多次看到初级开发人员关联子查询，这通常会对性能产生严重影响。但是，当删除一个相关的子查询时，一定要查看之前和之后的解释计划，以确保您没有使性能变差。