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Primary key/foreign Key naming convention
What is the naming convention for Primary Key column in Db Tables?
For instance:
PK_Country or CountryId or ID or PrimaryKey or.. ?
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Columns should be named based on the data elements that they represent, not based on what constraints apply to them. A primary key column should be named in the same way you name any other column. The ISO 11179 standard has some useful guidelines for naming data elements.