Bad Database Access Patterns is the one problem pattern I observe most often, followed by service calls that are too chatty, bad shared data access synchronization, excessive logging, and memory leaks ...

Just about every company with a DBMS has that binder full of corporate and/or IT standards. You know what I’m talking about — that one over there in the corner with the cobwebs on it — the one that ...

An example of a bad standard would be to place an artificial limit on indexing. There should be noarbitrary limiton the number of indexes that you can create for any database table. Indexes are ...