Re: Natural keys vs Aritficial Keys

Walter Mitty wrote:
...
> I have to admit that I've got a firm opinion on the "tables should be
> plural" controversy myself. Furthermore, my own practice is inconsistent
> because when I use the "table_name AS table_alias" construct, the alias is
> almost always singular, or an abbreviation of a singular, even though my
> table names are almost always plural. I don't regard that opinion of mine
> to be product driven, and I don't think it's much more than esthetic, and
> ever so slightly mnemonic.
> ...

That gibes entirely with algebraic basics, and, I presume, calculus basics, where such names are nothing more than syntactical place-holders. Pathological mystics often claim otherwise! Received on Sun May 17 2009 - 02:19:46 CEST