Re: Oracle Database Standards
Date: 1995/09/15
Message-ID: <43cj56$ra3_at_linux.nildram.co.uk>#1/1
delphi <delphi_at_digital.net> wrote:
>Suggest making table names plural and column names singular. Also avoid
>using abbriviations.
>
Abbreviations are only a problem where each developer on the project makes up
their own abbreviations as they go along, bewildering everone else. If you
establish a project wide list of abbreviations for use in column / table /
variable names it saves on the amount of typing (and reduces typos ).
It also helps ensure consistent use of abbreviations in variable names between
programs, and let's face it, no matter what the standards say, variable names
are made up on the fly.
Barry J Chatfield
Database Consultants Ltd
barry_at_dbconsult.nildram.co.uk
Tel & Fax +44 1923 266895
Received on Fri Sep 15 1995 - 00:00:00 CEST