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pkfox wrote:

official England are crap at football

• Do not normalize past level 3 for most things. It's not worth the performance hit.
• Do not use old school Hungarian notation like tblUsers for names.
• Learn what an index is and how to properly use it (hint, they help with reads).
• Learn when to use a flattened/denormalized table (hint, when speed is a must or for a reporting db/table).
• If you're in MySQL, learn the different storage types.
• Learn how to use diagrams well.
• For all things pure, make sure you get a proper handle foreign key constraints to help with data integrity.
• Learn when or when not to use a compound key (hint, many to many).
• Speaking of, learn when to use a many to many relationship (hint, clicety).
• Learn the pros and cons of building a self-referential table (hint, when building a hierarchy of data).
• Lean when to use views (hint, permissions and data access restrictions, read only denormalization).
• Understand why concepts like code-first DB design is only purported by those who don't understand proper DB design.
• Understand that by their design relational DBs are slower than non-relational ones.
• Learn to use triggers to automate some things that would otherwise be tedious.
• And for all things pure again, get a grasp on transactions and connection pools.
• Learn to use SQL profiling tools, these will be your BFF.

• Learn when to use one. If you need to do semi-realtime anything, NoSQL is awesome. So, stuff like logging is perfect for it.
• They make a great reporting DB if you want to use this rather than a flattened table in your relational DB above.
• They don't use schemas (for the most part) so the learning curve is a breeze compared to SQL.
• Do not use them for mission critical data where it's ok to run a bit slower when data integrity is paramount.

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It's just that if libraries could fill the gap by themselves, I feel like they would have already?

public component Foo { // implements IPropertyNotify, IComponent, IDisposable, etc
    public Bar { get; set; } // implements OnBarChanged, BarChanged, all the metadata attributes like Browsable etc
}

honey the codewitch wrote:

What I'd really like is a language that allows one to augment the grammar,

honey the codewitch wrote:

What I'd really like is a language that allows one to augment the grammar,