Useful Database Design Patterns

Armen will lead you on an exploration beyond database design standards and best practices.  He will cover useful techniques and patterns such as:

•    Designing for flexible and powerful user permissions far beyond hierarchical levels, that put your users fully in control

•    Storing variable, expandable data using attribute-value pairs (and when not to use them)

•    Designing tables and fields to avoid hardcoding special values

•    Storing diagnostic data, to help you with debugging those long and complex calculations and processes