9 of the Most Common Mistakes in Database Design

As a database designer, when you are tasked with a database project, you can expect to run into a couple of challenges during the design process and after the database is deployed to production.

Some of these problems are unavoidable and outside your control. However, a number of them can be traced back to the quality of the database design itself. The decisions you make at this preliminary phase can have a profound impact on how well the database eventually works. The following are some of the most common mistakes of database design.