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.

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。

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。

过度使用和/或依赖存储过程。

一些应用程序开发人员将存储过程视为中间层/前端代码的直接扩展。这似乎是微软堆栈开发人员的一个共同特征(我是其中之一，但我已经不再这样做了)，并产生许多执行复杂业务逻辑和工作流处理的存储过程。这在其他地方做得更好。

存储过程在某些实际技术因素(例如性能和安全性)需要使用时非常有用。例如，保持大型数据集的聚合/过滤“接近数据”。

我最近不得不帮助维护和增强一个大型Delphi桌面应用程序，其中70%的业务逻辑和规则是在1400个SQL Server存储过程中实现的(其余在UI事件处理程序中)。这是一场噩梦，主要是由于难以将有效的单元测试引入TSQL，缺乏封装和糟糕的工具(调试器，编辑器)。

在过去与Java团队一起工作时，我很快发现在那个环境中，情况往往完全相反。一位Java架构师曾经告诉我:“数据库是用于数据的，而不是用于代码的。”

现在，我认为完全不考虑存储过程是错误的，但在它们提供有用好处的情况下，应该谨慎使用(不是默认情况)(参见其他答案)。

二十年来我见过的最常见的错误是:没有提前计划。许多开发人员将创建数据库和表，然后在构建应用程序时不断修改和扩展表。最终的结果往往是一团糟，效率低下，之后很难清理或简化。

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.