The benefits of a well-designed database are numerous, one of which being the more work you do up front, the less you'll have to do later. The worst time to start thinking about database design is after the launch of the application using it -- but you'd be surprised at how often this happens. However, you shouldn't be surprised at the costs which are incurred at fixing such a grievous error.

Database design begins before one line of code is written in your application, and after the determination of architecture, functionality and business rules. If the planning stages of application development are complete, the database design stage will go quickly and smoothly.

Good database design is crucial to providing high performance and ease of maintenance. If you have an application not created by us, which is not meeting your performance, reliability and scalability goals, we can provide an audit of your database structure, including before and after modeling and normalization recommendations.