August 2020
Intermediate
59m
English
on-demand course
Database Design Best Practices: Building Scalable Data Solutions to Withstand the Test of Time
with Edward Pollack
Closed Captioning available in English
Overview
This video highlights best practices in database design that can help you to ensure the development of high-quality data solutions. It shows how to avoid common mistakes that lead to badly designed applications and code that scales poorly. You'll be able to avoid future technical debt that is expensive to fix and can hamstring an organization. It is far less expensive and time-consuming to make well-researched decisions up-front than to be forced to refactor bad code in the future. This video shows you the way.
Easy-to-follow rules and conventions from this video help you to ensure quality by properly reviewing database architecture and design to be sure that developers will be able to create and maintain applications that scale and perform as expected. The video shows how a documented database design checklist helps you and your developers to ensure that best practices are followed when creating new database objects. Once created, best practices can be updated and maintained as organizational needs change and evolve.
What You Will Learn
- Employ best practices for designing tables, columns, and procedural T-SQL
- Optimize correctly and separately for the different needs of OLAP versus OLTP
- Avoid common mistakes and their impact on database scalability and performance
- Achieve the desired scalability for your applications when designing database objects
- Design and name objects consistently to ease future maintenance
- Document, search, and maintain your database metadata
- Create sound database architecture based on the relational model
Who This Book Is For
For developers and data professionals who want to improve the scalability and maintainability of their database-driven applications. For database administrators who are involved in their organization’s design efforts.
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