Database Schema Design

Overview

Guide the design, implementation, and optimization of database schemas with sound data modeling, safe migrations, effective indexing, and appropriate query patterns. This skill covers the full lifecycle from conceptual modeling through physical optimization, ensuring schemas that are normalized, performant, and safely evolvable.

Announce at start: "I'm using the database-schema-design skill to design the database schema."

Phase 1: Discovery and Conceptual Model

Ask these questions to understand the data requirements: