在修复生产数据库内部的一些问题之前没有进行备份。 在存储过程中的存储对象(如表、视图)上使用DDL命令。 害怕使用存储的proc或害怕在更有效/更合适的地方使用ORM查询。 忽略数据库分析器的使用，它可以准确地告诉您ORM查询最终转换为什么，从而验证逻辑，甚至在不使用ORM时进行调试。

忘记在表之间建立关系。我记得当我刚开始在我现在的雇主工作时，我不得不清理这些东西。

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

我想补充一点: 偏好“优雅”代码而不是高性能代码。在应用程序开发人员看来，对数据库最有效的代码通常是丑陋的。

Believing that nonsense about premature optimization. Databases must consider performance in the original design and in any subsequent development. Performance is 50% of database design (40% is data integrity and the last 10% is security) in my opinion. Databases which are not built from the bottom up to perform will perform badly once real users and real traffic are placed against the database. Premature optimization doesn't mean no optimization! It doesn't mean you should write code that will almost always perform badly because you find it easier (cursors for example which should never be allowed in a production database unless all else has failed). It means you don't need to look at squeezing out that last little bit of performance until you need to. A lot is known about what will perform better on databases, to ignore this in design and development is short-sighted at best.

根据我的经验: 不与有经验的dba沟通。

对于基于sql的数据库:

Not taking advantage of CLUSTERED INDEXES or choosing the wrong column(s) to CLUSTER. Not using a SERIAL (autonumber) datatype as a PRIMARY KEY to join to a FOREIGN KEY (INT) in a parent/child table relationship. Not UPDATING STATISTICS on a table when many records have been INSERTED or DELETED. Not reorganizing (i.e. unloading, droping, re-creating, loading and re-indexing) tables when many rows have been inserted or deleted (some engines physically keep deleted rows in a table with a delete flag.) Not taking advantage of FRAGMENT ON EXPRESSION (if supported) on large tables which have high transaction rates. Choosing the wrong datatype for a column! Not choosing a proper column name. Not adding new columns at the end of the table. Not creating proper indexes to support frequently used queries. creating indexes on columns with few possible values and creating unnecessary indexes. ...more to be added.