Look, everyone makes mistakes. It’s true. But not all of us have the chance to make mistakes that end up costing millions of dollars in hardware and production support costs.

Any one of the following five mistakes listed below will add additional costs to your company. It’s guaranteed. The costs could be hardware related (extra disk space, network bandwidth), which tend to add up quickly. The costs are also support related (bad performance, database re-design, report creation, etc.), and they add up very quickly.

Want to save your company some money, some headaches for your end-users, and ensure data quality all at the same time? Then avoid these five database design mistakes.

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