For Databases, it takes me a concious effort to not go to at least 3rd NF. Except for addresses/names/telephone numbers, I have been burned by ANY assumption I

For Databases, it takes me a concious effort to not go to at least 3rd NF. Except for addresses/names/telephone numbers, I have been burned by ANY assumption I made. Those, I tend to just store as something like char(255) nowadays by default, unless business requirements force me to split it up, but even then, after voicing my concerns. Edit: reading up on the addresses falsehoods again, 255 may not be enough. https://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-names/ https://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-... https://github.com/google/libphonenumber/blob/master/FALSEHOODS.md https://github.com/google/libphonenumber/blob/master/FALSEHO... https://www.mjt.me.uk/posts/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-addresses/ https://www.mjt.me.uk/posts/falsehoods-programmers-believe-a...