November 2009
Intermediate to advanced
848 pages
30h 4m
English
book
SQL Server MVP Deep Dives
by Adam Machanic, Greg Low, Kimberly Tripp, Paul S. Randal, Kalen Delaney, Paul Nielsen
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Chapter 1. Louis and Paul’s 10 key relational database design ideas
Paul Nielsen and Louis Davidson
Even though the database world is more stable than the app dev world, which seems to have a hot new language every other week (our procs written in SQL Server T-SQL 4.21 still run, for the most part), there are still controversies and key ideas that are worth examining. For the 24 Hours of PASS, we presented a session on Ten Big Ideas in Database Design:
- Denormalization is for wimps
- Keys are key
- Generalize, man!
- Class <> table
- Data drives design
- Sets good, cursors bad
- Properly type data
- Extensibility through encapsulation
- Spaghetti is food, not code
- NOLOCK = no consistency
1. Denormalization is for wimps
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