Oracle-L: Re: Table Naming Conventions

From: <Jared.Still_at_radisys.com>
Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2002 09:13:57 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.004A7961.20020731091357@fatcity.com>

In Entity Relationship modeling, the entity names are singular. This is because
an entity refers to a single instance of the object described.

Tables should be plural, as they refer to many instances of each object.

At least that works for me.

Jared

Gary Chambers <gc22_at_lucent.com>
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Many thanks to all for your feedback and advice! As I suspected, naming conventions are really a matter of someone's personal preference, and what's really important is to keep it standard and consistent.

One [hopefully] last question: What's the consensus (if there is such a thing) on plural vs. singular table names?

Gary Chambers

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