<p>I'm looking for a book/site/tutorial on best practices for relational database design, tuning for performance etc. It turns out this kind of resource is a bit difficult to find; there's a lot of "here's normalization, here's ER diagrams, have at it," but not much in the way of real examples. Anyone have any ideas?</p>

[{'answer_id': 11618, 'author': 'Neall', 'author_id': 619, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/619', 'pm_score': 4, 'selected': True, 'text': '<p>Book: <a href="https://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/com/0201752840" rel="noreferrer" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Database Design for Mere Mortals</a></p>\n'}, {'answer_id': 11643, 'author': 'J Wynia', 'author_id': 1124, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/1124', 'pm_score': 3, 'selected': False, 'text': '<p>Take a look at the <a href="http://www.databaseanswers.org/data_models/index.htm" rel="noreferrer">Library of Free Data Models</a>. There are tons of example database designs, with diagrams that cover real-world scenarios (and some just fun/funny ones as well). I haven\'t ever used one as-is, but it\'s often been handy to get an idea of how to approach the problem of mapping the needs of the situation into a data model.</p>\n'}, {'answer_id': 11648, 'author': 'Pascal', 'author_id': 1311, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/1311', 'pm_score': 1, 'selected': False, 'text': '<p>Here are some resources I could find on the web. They include examples you are looking for:</p>\n\n<ul>\n<li><a href="http://databases.ncl.ac.uk/databases/Design/default.aspx" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Designing and creating a Relational Database - Dr Lorna Scammell: Newcastle University Database Adviser</a></li>\n<li><a href="http://www.databasedev.co.uk/data_models.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Sample Data Models for Relational Database Design </a></li>\n</ul>\n'}, {'answer_id': 542682, 'author': 'Greg Mattes', 'author_id': 13940, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/13940', 'pm_score': 2, 'selected': False, 'text': '<p>Check out the "<a href="http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596008949/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">The Art of SQL</a>". A pleasure to read.</p>\n'}]
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