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Asked: 2026-05-11T02:00:01+00:00

Ever wonder what wikipedia’s database schema looks like? I recently read this thread from

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Ever wonder what wikipedia’s database schema looks like? I recently read this thread from reddit.

I like how their tables are tagged with a prefix so you can sort of tell its functionality, purpose, and relationship with other tables right off the bat.

One thing I do not notice is how they name their stored procedures. Do they even use SP?

I use MS SQL Server. Prefixing all stored procedures with USP_ or SP_ seems redundant and anti-beneficial as the object explorer already sorts it all out for me. How do you name your SPs?

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  1. I like how their tables are tagged with a prefix so you can sort of tell its functionality, purpose, and relationship with other tables right off the bat

    That is why you have Schemas in SQL Server, you create a schema to group several object together and then you can give the HR person just access to the HR schema

    Prefixing all stored procedures with USP_ or SP_ seems redundant and anti-beneficial as the object explorer already sorts it all out for me. How do you name your SPs?

    SP_ should never be use because you will get a performance hit, whenever SQL server ‘sees’ a proc that starts with sp_ it will check the master database first, worst if MS decided to ship a proc with the sane name as yours and it starts with sp_ yours will never get executed

    BTW not everyone is using the project explorer, some people like to do this in T-SQL

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