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What is the point behind a naming convention when an identity column in a table is called like UserID, ProductID etc. instead of just an ID? What are the prons and cons?
One advantage of longer names: when you use columns in complicated query with many tables (e.g. joins) you don’t have to prefix columns to know from what table they come from and also you minimize problems with column names ambiguity.