我不得不说，应用程序开发人员犯的最大错误是没有正确地规范化数据库。

作为一名应用程序开发人员，我意识到正确的数据库结构、规范化和维护的重要性;我花了无数的时间自学数据库结构和管理。根据我的经验，每当我开始与不同的开发人员合作时，我通常必须重组整个数据库并更新应用程序以适应，因为它通常是畸形的和有缺陷的。

For example, I started working with a new project where the developer asked me to implement Facebook Connect on the site. I cracked open the database to see what I had to work with and saw that every little bit of information about any given user was crammed into one table. It took me six hours to write a script that would organize the table into four or five separate tables and another two to get the app to use those tables. Please, normalize your databases! It will make everything else less of a headache.

不使用索引。

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。

根据我的经验: 不与有经验的dba沟通。

不了解数据库并发模型以及它如何影响开发。事后添加索引和调整查询很容易。然而，应用程序的设计没有适当考虑热点，资源争用 和正确的操作(假设您刚刚阅读的内容仍然有效!)可能需要在数据库和应用层中进行重大更改，以便稍后纠正。

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。