{"id":206,"date":"2011-11-14T16:29:01","date_gmt":"2011-11-14T23:29:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sqldbpros.com\/?p=206"},"modified":"2011-11-14T16:30:17","modified_gmt":"2011-11-14T23:30:17","slug":"the-four-database-design-principles-you-should-be-using","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sqldbpros.com\/wordpress\/2011\/11\/the-four-database-design-principles-you-should-be-using\/","title":{"rendered":"The Four Database Design Principles You Should Be Using"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\"Obey the principles without being bound by them.\"<br \/>\n-Bruce Lee<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Do you have some guiding principles you use when designing a new feature or when implementing a new requirement?\u00a0 I do.\u00a0 And you should too.\u00a0 I put them to paper a few years ago while we were undergoing a hiring binge and I wanted to make sure our entire team was on the same page with regard to a few core concepts.\u00a0 These are the guidelines I use when evaluating my own work, before presenting it to someone else.\u00a0 When there's a fork in the proverbial road I use these design principles, in the order listed, to help guide my decision.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Simplicity over complexity<\/li>\n<li>Maintainability<\/li>\n<li>Willing to sacrifice flexibility for simplicity and maintainability<\/li>\n<li>Scalability and performance<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Disagree?\u00a0 Would you order them differently? Have your own principles? Let's hear it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sqldbpros.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/BOX_MMA_BRUCE_LEE_300.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"BOX_MMA_BRUCE_LEE_300\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sqldbpros.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/BOX_MMA_BRUCE_LEE_300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"448\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\"Obey the principles without being bound by them.\" -Bruce Lee &nbsp; Do you have some guiding principles you use when designing a new feature or when implementing a new requirement?\u00a0 I do.\u00a0 And you should too.\u00a0 I put them to paper a few years ago while we were undergoing a hiring binge and I wanted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":207,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,17,21],"tags":[35,39,20,32,168,169,41,40,5],"class_list":["post-206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-career","category-data-architect","category-leadership","tag-best-practice","tag-bruce-lee","tag-business-intelligence","tag-design-review","tag-hiring","tag-leadership","tag-principles","tag-standards","tag-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sqldbpros.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sqldbpros.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sqldbpros.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sqldbpros.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sqldbpros.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/sqldbpros.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":217,"href":"http:\/\/sqldbpros.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206\/revisions\/217"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sqldbpros.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sqldbpros.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sqldbpros.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sqldbpros.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}