Timeline for Should I use a Column naming convention or rely on column descriptions?
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| Feb 20, 2012 at 9:02 | comment | added | gbn | You can use schemas now for Data and Ref prefixes: no need to include it in the table name. | |
| Feb 17, 2012 at 20:18 | comment | added | RGPSoftware | I'll add one more thing to this, which is that in terms of column naming, I like to use a convention of placing the noun first, then the adjective, which isn't how we talk, and consequently not how many people name columns, but this makes columns easier to organize. For example, instead of using Home_Phone, Mobile_Phone, Work_Phone, you would use Phone_Home, Phone_Mobile, Phone_Work, etc. | |
| Feb 17, 2012 at 15:55 | history | answered | RGPSoftware | CC BY-SA 3.0 |