Section

6 pages

Anti-Patterns

Database patterns that look fine in review and fail in production, with the measured failure: non-SARGable predicates, polymorphic references, covering-index traps, cross-database joins.

Collation Drift: The Silent Index Killer 0 Cross Database Joins: The Coupling You Can't See Until You Split 0 God Tables: 150 Columns and the Quiet Cost of 'Just Add a Column' 0 Non Sargable Predicates: How a Function in Where Kills Your Index 0 One Column Added to a Select: 1,020 Page Reads Became 166,667 0 Random Uuids as Primary Keys: The B Tree Penalty 0