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Schema-Design
TEXT and JSON Columns: Where the Schema Goes to Hide
Reading the Schema Is Not Reading the Data
God Tables: 150 Columns and the Quiet Cost of 'Just Add a Column'
Legacy Schemas Are Sediment, Not Design
The Bare `id` Primary Key: When Every Table Joins to Every Other Table
Polymorphic References Are Not Foreign Keys
ORMs Are a Coupling, Not an Abstraction
Schema Conventions Don't Survive Without Automation
Where Business Logic Lives - Database vs. Application