Assem Bayahi, Mourouj 1, Tunisia

Jules Bohanon, Lakeland, Florida

Bruce Bray, Phoenix, Arizona

Ven Grollmus, George Town, Tasmania, Australia

Julie Hogue, Akron, Ohio

Mark Horner, Bristol, England

Temitayo Ilori, Berea, Ohio

Biju John, Pathanamthitta Dist., Kerala, India

Christian Koch, Berlin, Germany

Ehtisham Rasheed, Sialkot, Pakistan

Artiben prashantbhai S., Bhavnagar, India

Md. Obaidul Haque Sarker, Dhaka, Bangladesh

Grace Elaiza Seballos, Davao City, Philippines

Yuriy Sultanaev, Ufa, Russia

1. Please explain (or briefly describe) the general philosophy behind your database design approach. (14 answers)

2. What is something you have seen done repeatedly in database design work done by others people which you find to be particularly annoying or detrimental? (11 answers)

3. Given that you are database specialist, how does what do you while creating your database architecture save clients time and/or money? (11 answers)

5. Where do you live? (13 answers)

6. Briefly describe your pertinent work and/or educational background. (14 answers)

7. What are the industries you have the most experience working within? (12 answers)

8. Your rate is higher what other programmers and freelancers charge. How does what you do with database design save clients and companies money in the long run? (13 answers)

9. You have special expertise in database design. How is what you do different from what a generalist computer programmer might do when it comes to creating a database back end? (12 answers)

10. When you look at database design work done by generalist programmers or other people with limited DB design expertise, what is the most insane or annoying thing you see repeatedly? (5 answers)

11. How is the database design work you do distinct from and also integrated with other aspects of overall software/technology systems? (10 answers)

12. Describe how the database design work you do now is similar to or different from "textbook database design," such as one might learn in college or read in a text book or software manual. (8 answers)

13. What is the biggest example of a "rule" you routinely break? (Or another way of putting it is: what popular tradition are you most likely to depart from, if any?) (11 answers)

14. What RDBMS have you used extensively, or are at least somewhat familiar with based on first-hand experience? (12 answers)

15. Given an assignment to create a website from scratch for Company X, what RDBMS are you using? (website specs: principle table has 10,000 rows and will grow to 200,000 over next five years; admin back-end, general browsing, user logins; no more than 100 concurrent users) (13 answers)

16. What other technologies are you using for this website? (11 answers)

17. What tools would you be using? (IDEs, code editors, database design tools, if any) (11 answers)

18. Aside from the database design, how much other development do you typically do? How much would you prefer to do? (10 answers)

19. Table names: plural? singular? or something else? why? (12 answers)

20. How do you name your primary identity fields? (11 answers)

21. Describe your relationship (if any) with WordPress? (9 answers)

22. If you use stored procedures, how do you decide to use them or not use them? What are your alternatives? (11 answers)

23. Why would a client who needs database design work done be making a wise move to hire you (if you're available)? (11 answers)