使用Access而不是“真正的”数据库。有很多很棒的小型甚至免费的数据库，比如SQL Express、MySQL和SQLite，它们可以更好地工作和扩展。应用程序通常需要以意想不到的方式进行扩展。

不使用索引。

不对数据库模式使用版本控制 直接针对活动数据库工作 没有阅读和理解更高级的数据库概念(索引、聚集索引、约束、物化视图等) 没有测试可伸缩性……只有3或4行的测试数据永远不会给您真实的实时性能的真实画面

在运行DELETE查询之前没有执行相应的SELECT查询(特别是在生产数据库上)!

没有做正确的标准化。您希望确保数据没有重复，并且根据需要将数据分割为不同的数据。您还需要确保不要过于遵循规范化，否则会损害性能。

I think the biggest mistakes that all developers and DBAs do is believing too much on conventions. What I mean by that is that convention are only guide lines that for most cases will work but not necessarily always. I great example is normalization and foreign keys, I know most people wont like this, but normalization can cause complexity and cause loss of performance as well, so if there is no reason to move a phone number to a phones table, don't do it. On the foreign keys, they are great for most cases, but if you are trying to create something that can work by it self when needed the foreign key will be a problem in the future, and also you loose performance. Anyways, as I sad rules and conventions are there to guide, and they should always be though of but not necessarily implemented, analysis of each case is what should always be done.