What Are the Best Practices for Normalisation of Data in Database Design? or How Does Normalisation o

Wow, thanks everyone! Didn’t expect so many solid tips.

I’ll def check out dbdiagram.io and the Stanford course. Also, good call on testing with real data early—totally skipped that step.

One follow-up: how do you decide *which* tables to denormalise for performance? Like, is there a rule or just trial-and-error?

(And yeah, SQL Antipatterns is now on my list!)