Things to Do in a Database

Things to Do in a Database:

1.Have and exercise a Disaster Recovery Plan
2. Do not modify a production database inappropriately
3. Do not modify existing objects using ad-hoc queries
4. Always Develop new features in development first and then use in production.
5. Normalize your data
6. Enforce Foreign Key Relationships
7. Document a Database Schema
8. Have and implement a data retention policy
9. Tune a database
10. create and maintain indexes based on data access patterns
11. create and maintain appropriate statistics
12. implement appropriate security
13.Utilize Schema's. do not use DBO schema for all roles, use different schemasa for separating roles
14.Separation Data Access
15. Associate Authentication and User with appropriate roles and schema's
16.Review Application Logs