Question

Do you prefix each field in a table with abbreviated table name?

Example:

Table: User  Fields: user_id user_name user_password 

Or do you do you name your fields minimally?

Fields: id name password 

If you have used both, then which format you feel helped you most in the long run?

Edit: This question doesn’t seem to have a definite answer and both side presents good points. But I have kept the question open for too long time and maybe it’s time to mark one answer as accepted. I am therefore marking the highest voted one as accepted.

Answer 1

Don’t do that. It’s redundant and leads to frustration in the long run.

The only field, where you could apply this might be id, because user_id would obviously be the id of the user and it would simplify writing joins in SQL. But I wouldn’t even do that.