Plural or singular table names
Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2003 05:09:20 GMT
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Well my company is going through its processes of writing company standards documents and we are at the age old question:
"Should table names be in the plural or singular forms?"
I figured that I would get a feel here for what the general consensus is from the group.
I am from the school that says plural because the table holds multiples of one thing. A table that holds employee information should be called Employees.
Some of the members of the group here simply think that the table should not be treated as holding a group of employees, but rather it should be treated as simply a place that contains information about THE employee.
If someone can point me to a definitive standard (if one does exist) I would be most grateful. If we are going to go one way or another I want to have the decision documented in the appendix of the document so that when people read this years form now there is a clear path of WHY we decided what we did. Received on Sun Aug 31 2003 - 07:09:20 CEST