On Wednesday 26 August 2015 10:27:04 Gavin Flower wrote: > Actually I would suggest standardising on singular names, not JUST > because that this the standard I prefer! :-) > > But (also) because: > > 1. Singular words tend to be shorter > > 2. plurals are more ambiguous wrt spelling > > 3. there other good reasons, that I've forgotten for now :-( > (but I remember having them!!!)
Oh, so you name your tables 'fish' and 'crow' instead of 'school' and 'murder' ? Such wasted opportunities :p
OTOH, either is better than some insane DBA who calls them "TableOf????" (camel case in quotes to preserve case) to be "self documenting and easy to read" (Likely a COBOL programmer in a former life). Oh, and then "to make it simple", all the SQL uses the AS to "alias" the table name to a single alphabetic character in [a-z].
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