RE: Naming Standards - Thoughts Needed

IMHO the reason for prefixes/postfixes. Postfixes ????????? Aggghhhhh!!!!! Is this technical term? What's wrong with "suffixes".

Ian MacGregor
Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
ian_at_slac.stanford.edu
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IMHO the reason for prefixes/postfixes is so that dependent objects can be given a more 'natural' name, that relates it to the object it depends on. Therefore T_ is redundant because tables don't depend on anything, but V_, T_ etc _may_ not be. Similarly, in pl/sql, you often want a procedure parameter to be the value of a column on a table. You can't use the name of the column because that would cause problems in the sql statements that use the value, so the usual standard is to prefix all parameters with p_ and local variables with l_ or v_.

BTW, TR_ is not generally sufficient - you may want to have more than one trigger on a table. I would use something like TAI_ = Trigger After Insert, TBIUD_ = Trigger Before Insert, Update or Delete, etc.

On the underscores/capitalisation business; Oracle is generally not case-sensitive, so really you have to use underscores if you want readability.

Regards
David Lord

-----Original Message-----
Sent: 13 July 2001 20:21
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Our old office used to do that as well, and I thought it was redundant.

You can always look up the type in dba_objects to know what the type is. It might be worth more to keep those extra characters as part of the name.

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Sent: Friday, July 13, 2001 1:21 PM
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 Hi ,
We use
 T_ for tables
P_ procs
V_ view
TR_ trigger

F_        function
S_F_        synonym of function

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> Were looking to develop naming standards within our organization and I am
> wondering what others use. Is there a formal process similiar to ofa? Do
> shops typically use underscores or case? (policy_number / PolicyNumber)
What
> about abbreviating? Enforcement processes ? Other considerations?
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