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>> Until the database and your queries need to be optimized for higher load, then suddenly everyone wants a DBA.

And then the table structure, relations, indexes, and keys all get changed because it wasn't carefully designed the first time. Then changes propagate into a bunch of queries and code and it's a much bigger deal than doing it better the first time ;-)



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