You need to teach developers database best practices smoothly. How do you avoid causing friction?
Introducing database best practices to developers can be challenging, but with a collaborative approach, you can avoid friction and ensure smooth adoption. Here’s how to make the process seamless:
- Engage early: Involve developers in the decision-making process to foster a sense of ownership.
- Provide clear documentation: Offer comprehensive guides and examples to make best practices easier to understand and implement.
- Offer continuous support: Be available for questions and provide ongoing training sessions to reinforce learning.
What strategies have you found effective in teaching best practices?
You need to teach developers database best practices smoothly. How do you avoid causing friction?
Introducing database best practices to developers can be challenging, but with a collaborative approach, you can avoid friction and ensure smooth adoption. Here’s how to make the process seamless:
- Engage early: Involve developers in the decision-making process to foster a sense of ownership.
- Provide clear documentation: Offer comprehensive guides and examples to make best practices easier to understand and implement.
- Offer continuous support: Be available for questions and provide ongoing training sessions to reinforce learning.
What strategies have you found effective in teaching best practices?
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Great points on introducing database best practices! One strategy I’ve found effective is peer-to-peer learning—pairing experienced developers with those newer to best practices fosters collaboration and creates a supportive learning environment. Additionally, automating code reviews and incorporating tools that flag non-compliant patterns early in the development process can help reinforce best practices without adding extra overhead. Finally, hosting interactive workshops or hackathons focused on solving real-world challenges helps developers see the immediate value of these practices, making adoption much more seamless. What’s worked best for your teams?
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1. Regular meetings should be held with developers to discuss the challenges they face and provide appropriate solutions. 2. New features and functions introduced in the latest version of SQL Server should be presented to the developers, suggesting their use to execute queries more efficiently. 3. Provide timely and appropriate feedback. 4. Provide an example of poorly written queries and the negative impact on query performance and server load, along with optimized query writing techniques to encourage developers to write better queries. 5. Create an environment for training and attending sessions on proper database design for optimal performance. 6. Offer multiple solutions to a problem.
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Provide Clear Documentation: Offering comprehensive guides and practical examples is crucial to making best practices understandable and easy to implement. Documentation should include detailed explanations, ideal codes, and practical tips that help developers understand how to apply these practices in their daily work.
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One thing I feel is crucial for helping others with database technologies, best practices or otherwise is to be sure to introduce why some of the technologies exist in the first place. There are many different database technologies - relational, column, document, graph, etc. Each were built for a specific purpose, solve specific problems that other technologies are unable to do, or don’t do well. What are the strengths of each one? What are the tradeoffs and weaknesses? Once that is understood, choose wisely and dig in! Often the flavor of the month technology is chosen incorrectly causing issues and disappointment down the road. No best practice can help fix the wrong technology for the work. I love mentoring and teaching others this stuff
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Communications is critical in all three areas, whether written or oral communications. We are the subject matter experts on databases, but others are the subject matter experts in other areas to include both development and operations as a part of the SecDevOps project management methodoloy. Communications is critical because we need to understand the needs of all three elements of the creation of a database within various organizational applications. While DBAs are a part of the development team, they are also a part of the cybersecurity team and all have to play nice so that we can protect the databases from attacks and maintain its CIA of the data.