Which is more important? DB design or coding? [closed]

Answer 1

IMHO Good database design in more important then good coding (good coding is also important but compare to database design).

1. Simply because Database will store your valuable data.
2. Bad coding may not affect the database but will affect the scalability, performance of the whole application, etc. Over a period of time this can be fixed by refactoring(ofcourse some cost involved).
3. Refactoring a database is much more costlier and difficult.
4. Also normally we have multiple different apps running on same database so its a common factor.