我想补充一点: 偏好“优雅”代码而不是高性能代码。在应用程序开发人员看来，对数据库最有效的代码通常是丑陋的。

Believing that nonsense about premature optimization. Databases must consider performance in the original design and in any subsequent development. Performance is 50% of database design (40% is data integrity and the last 10% is security) in my opinion. Databases which are not built from the bottom up to perform will perform badly once real users and real traffic are placed against the database. Premature optimization doesn't mean no optimization! It doesn't mean you should write code that will almost always perform badly because you find it easier (cursors for example which should never be allowed in a production database unless all else has failed). It means you don't need to look at squeezing out that last little bit of performance until you need to. A lot is known about what will perform better on databases, to ignore this in design and development is short-sighted at best.

这里有一个视频链接，名为“经典数据库开发错误和克服它们的五种方法”，作者是Scott Walz

如果您正在使用复制(MySQL)，以下函数是不安全的，除非您正在使用基于行的复制。

USER(), CURRENT_USER() (or CURRENT_USER), UUID(), VERSION(), LOAD_FILE(), and RAND()

参见:http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/replication-features-functions.html

因为“它太神奇了”或“不在我的数据库中”这样的原因，而放弃像Hibernate这样的ORM。 过度依赖像Hibernate这样的ORM，并试图将它硬塞到不合适的地方。

不了解DBMS的工作原理。

如果不了解离合器的工作原理，你就不能正确地驾驶变速杆。如果不了解实际上只是在硬盘上写入文件，就无法理解如何使用数据库。

具体地说:

Do you know what a Clustered Index is? Did you think about it when you designed your schema? Do you know how to use indexes properly? How to reuse an index? Do you know what a Covering Index is? So great, you have indexes. How big is 1 row in your index? How big will the index be when you have a lot of data? Will that fit easily into memory? If it won't it's useless as an index. Have you ever used EXPLAIN in MySQL? Great. Now be honest with yourself: Did you understand even half of what you saw? No, you probably didn't. Fix that. Do you understand the Query Cache? Do you know what makes a query un-cachable? Are you using MyISAM? If you NEED full text search, MyISAM's is crap anyway. Use Sphinx. Then switch to Inno.

使用Excel存储(大量)数据。

我曾见过一些公司拥有数千行并使用多个工作表(由于以前版本的Excel的行数限制为65535)。

Excel非常适合用于报告、数据演示和其他任务，但不应被视为数据库。