Best practices are generally and informally recognized as the methods and processes that have been shown over time to be superior to those achieved by other means.

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Is it a good practice to create tables dynamically in a site?

A friend asked me to build a site with a few "static" and "dynamic" tables. In fact he wants to have a few tables which can't be deleted, and some "dynamic" tables which can be created directly from ...
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Payment methods conceptual and logical model

I need to create a conceptual and logical (normalized) models of parking house according to the requirements below. It looks to me as a very simple concept that doesn't need all tables to have ...
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Replicating databases for local and cloud instances

Forgive me if this is an inappropriate place for this architectural question but I'm not sure where it best fits in the StackExchange family. I have been tasked with developing an online/live auction ...
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Are there any best practices before moving SQL Server to another node (controlled failover)?

Let's say there are multiple jobs running on the SQL Server - we have index maintenance jobs, backups, replication, etc. We would like to perform a switchover using Failover Cluster Manager. Are there ...
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going from heirarchical XML to heirarchical SQL tables then SQL to c# objects to go to user view, how should I store the data in the databases?

Hi I'm getting my data from a web service using their getData call and it comes in as fairly chunky heirarchical XML, first everything all at once, like <allData> <product1> ...
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Need help to design model with multiple rights

For a website, I have multiple elements that need to be moderated by many different users. Until now, I have always used Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) model but I want a more flexible model. I ...
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Enforce a hard limit on write execution time during Amazon RDS write stalls

I am trying to recover from the situation where Amazon RDS write operations stall (some discussion on why this is here). If I show full processlist, I will see something like this: 318263 myapp1 ...