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Asked: 2026-05-17T15:48:27+00:00

Are there any naming conventions for tables/fields within MySQL? I have found a big

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Are there any naming conventions for tables/fields within MySQL? I have found a big list of “reserved words” but other than that are there any other concerns about naming?

For example, are field/table names like this acceptable:

p_name
p.name
p-name
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  1. Editorial Team

    You can not use p.name or p-name as fields! p.name would mean field name from table p. p-name means subtract field name from field p.

    Prefixes in a database can be useful if there are third party tables in the same database. For example, mantis prefixes (by default) all table names with mantis_ to prevent name collisions. I would not recommend this for fields, but that’s a matter of taste, right?

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