Is it normal to design a database without writing an analysts first but basing it on the design?

nitefox@lemmy.world to Programming@programming.dev – 14 points –

The other day I asked for an analysis or at least an UML diagram since we are having quite some troubles and my boss looked disgusted at me for asking such a question. I’m not a professional backend developer, so I don’t know how it works professionally

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I think there's context missing from that story. Diagrams do not trigger disgust. At best, making superfluous and time-wasting demands in the context of trivial tasks that add nothing of value and achieve nothing but wasting time and adding overhead can often lead managers to frown upon them.

The DB is already made, but they had to change it cause they didn't plan a huge portion of its logic beforehand even though they knew about it: this resulted in major changes across the whole schema