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Last Updated: Jun 05, 2006 
You have a countless number of decisions to make when designing a database. The following resources are just the tip of the iceberg, but they provide some key database design best practices.
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Building fast-performing database models

(19 May 2006)

This chapter from the book Beginning Database Design describes various factors affecting database performance tuning, as applied to different database models.

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