On: Design Your Own Database (2004) [pdf]

[huherto]

:) We do have a lot of new cool database technologies. They may be the right choice in some specific domains. I still think RDBMs are the best generic choice. And good RDBMs design skills a core developer competence.

[collyw → huherto]

Having done it for a while now I always think that database design is simple. Yet looking at he work of others, many people get it really badly wrong.