Re: Field naming: Same name represents different data

"Bob Badour" <bbadour_at_golden.net> wrote in message news:XDt6a.299$xQ1.43889802_at_mantis.golden.net...
> Why would it be bad practice to use the user's preferred terminology?

Because users preferred terminology is usually ad-hoc, ill conceived and generally preferred by only one or a handful of users and not the user community as a whole. ;-)

But on the point itself. The FD

    Attribute Name -> Domain Name

is a nice reducer of redundancy in a database (and in it's use) . I can't think of a theoretical justification for mandating it however.

Regards
Paul Vernon
Business Intelligence, IBM Global Services Received on Mon Feb 24 2003 - 23:11:21 CET