SQL AntiPatterns

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SQL AntiPatterns
Presenter(s): Bill Karwin, Product Engineering Manager, Zend Technologies
Where: MySQL Conference and Expo 2007 (description)
When: April 24, 2007
Topics: MySQL, Design Patterns
Download: PowerPoint

[edit] Description

Presentation about AntiPatterns in MySQL-based applications. Karwin gave a very similar presentation, SQL Antipatterns, at the following year's conference.

[edit] AntiPatterns reviewed

  • Using comma-separated lists
  • Ambigous GROUP BY
  • Entity-Attribute-Value (EAV) tables
  • Letting users crash your server
  • Security issues from SQL injection
  • Forcing primary keys to be contiguous
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