A World without Ambiguous Column Names
I mentioned naming standards in a previous post. Several years ago, I was doing report development on a project implementation team, and I worked with a naming convention that still fascinates me. Every table had an alias. There was a table that stored all of these alias names, as well. Let me give an example: [...]
An Object by Any Other Name
In my career, I’ve seen a lot of database objects. And I’ve seen a lot of names, both good and bad. It seems that every shop I’ve worked in talks about naming standards. Unfortuately, those standards aren’t always followed. I’ve read some of the following ideas about naming standards: Tables should be prefixed with tbl [...]