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In a question I asked yesterday:-
The user spectralghost mentioned that my column name (e.g.TypeID) was a terrible naming convention. Can you guys elaborate for me why this is and let me know what kind of naming conventions ‘should’ be used for tables and columns?
You refer to this:
The problem with this is that the column that is semantically the same, has different names in two tables. Whatever it is, is advised to be the same, to be able to read your scripts better. You have to do a lot of extra thinking when trying to keep in mind all of these, if you don’t follow this rule, as the number of the tables start to grow…