Andrew Dixon wrote: > Hi Everyone. > > I'm just starting a major project for a government client and the > first job is to design the database. Is there any recongnised > convention on the naming of database fields. In the past I have always > named them [table_name_field_name] for example: projects_id where the > table is called 'projects' and the field is called 'id'.
None that I know of, but what I do is use plural in general for the table names, e.g. "categories", "posts". After all, we are talking about sets here, and it's natural to pluralise them. Fields I give the singular form to, so the "projects" would have a field called "project_id". The reasoning being that whereas the set contains many projects, hence the pluralisation, each tuple refers to just one, so it's singular. K. -- Keith Gaughan, Developer Digital Crew Ltd., Pembroke House, Pembroke Street, Cork, Ireland http://www.digital-crew.com/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Get the mailserver that powers this list at http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=17 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:181824 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
