Yeah, this has been my experience, too. Sql and RDBs are a lot less frustrating when someone takes the time to actually do some design and planning. Personal e

Yeah, this has been my experience, too. Sql and RDBs are a lot less frustrating when someone takes the time to actually do some design and planning. Personal experience incoming: At startups, it's usually a mess because hiring someone who knows databases seems to always come so late in the game. At bigger corporations, well, hopefully the developers and database people get along and talk - otherwise, one of those teams is going to be a bottleneck. > Model it correctly, then consider an optimization pass if performance cannot be reconciled with basic indexing or application-level batching/caching So true. This also extends into general purpose languages, everything is so much easier when you take the time to model things correctly.