Oracle-L: RE: Database naming conventions

From: Jesse, Rich <Rich.Jesse_at_qtiworld.com>
Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2003 14:04:25 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.0054E469.20030214140425@fatcity.com>

Now my left-brain is arguing with the right-brain. Some of our test/dev DBs are (or have been):

MULTI, ARENA, ORBIT, RALLY, and EMPIRE

(the word "playground" was too long...) And I've created at one point or another:

DUPLO, AMIGA, PLINK, CHEWY, HOPS, EDGE, ENCLAVE, and TICK.

No one's really able to figure out what they're used for by the name, but then again it doesn't take that long to familiarize yourself with Ford/Chevy/Mopar, Pepsi/Coke/RC, or Oracle/DB2/SQueaL_Server, either. It's no worse than trying to remember that "QTIERPP1" could be QTI's first production ERP DB, but giving servers and DBs theme names is a whole lot more fun.

Spooooon! :)

Rich

Rich Jesse                        System/Database Administrator
rich.jesse_at_qtiworld.com           Quad/Tech International, Sussex, WI USA

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Sent: Friday, February 14, 2003 2:59 PM
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We use following syntax ...
* FAM -- ABC Family Production DB
* OLDFAM -- essentially FAM but as of 2AM today (refreshed daily or on demand)

* FAMQA   -- FAM QA 
* FAMTEST -- FAM User Acceptance 
* FAMDEV  -- Fam development

This works good for us ...
Raj

Rajendra Jamadagni MIS, ESPN Inc. Rajendra dot Jamadagni at ESPN dot com
Any opinion expressed here is personal and doesn't reflect that of ESPN Inc.

QOTD: Any clod can have facts, but having an opinion is an art!

"Godlewski, Melissa" <Melissa.Godlewski_at_hq.doe.gov> wrote:
> List,
>
> I'm use to using a standard D=development T=test P=production. So
> for a
> database newly created on development it would be called something
> like
> D24X7. Then when it was created on Production it would be called
> P24X7. Or
> along similar lines.
>
> I'm working with an other DBA who wants everything to start with ora.
> Therefore it would be called orad24x7 and orap24x7. I've argued the
> ora is
> rather redundant since everyone will know it's an Oracle database
> they are
> connecting to. He is adamant it should have the ora identification
> so it is
> easily identified. I feel it will cause more confusion having ora at
> the
> beging of every dbname.
>
> Any thoughts for against either position?
>
> TIA
> M.Godlewski
>
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