SQL Developers: Take These 5 Create Table Steps To Improve Performance

Forget one of these 5 SQL CREATE TABLE steps and your table load time could grind to a halt.

If you follow Formula One, or have at least seen so much as a preview of Netflix’s “Drive to Survive”, you’ve probably heard that for the past 2–3 years, Red Bull Racing dominates the sport. The undisputed star of Red Bull (and F1 overall) is Dutch driver Max Verstappen, who continues on an unprecedented run of near-consecutive race victories.

While the reflexes and raw talent of drivers like Verstappen are certainly contributors to winning races, the more subtle stars are the Red Bull engineers. What’s interesting to me as a relatively new F1 viewer is that even after the Red Bull car has proven to be a race winner week in and week out for several years, the team’s engineers are continually tweaking its capabilities based on driver feedback. However, the most successful teams create engineering divisions that start from a base level of performance and increase a car’s capabilities from that constant state.

As SQL developers, especially those of you who are in or intended to pursue data architect and data engineer roles, it’s important to realize that, like Red Bull’s engineers, we can and must do several “tweaks” to a table’s base structure to set end users up for success.

On my team who, while small, is focused on exponentially increasing performance of…