RE: Standard of Column Names

2004-05-02 Thread Matt Chatterley
Message- > From: Ronan Lucio [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 27 April 2004 15:46 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Standard of Column Names > > Hello, > > I´m doing the planing for an application that will use > MySQL as database. > > So, I´d like to know your

Re: Standard of Column Names

2004-04-27 Thread Michael Stassen
Harald Fuchs wrote: In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Ronan Lucio" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Hello, I´m doing the planing for an application that will use MySQL as database. So, I´d like to know your opinions about the standard for the column names. Supposing that I should create a table nam

Re: Standard of Column Names

2004-04-27 Thread Ronan Lucio
Harald, > I don't see the necessity of the latter naming scheme since > > SELECT cod, name, description FROM car > > can also be written as > > SELECT car.cod, car.name, car.description FROM car Do you know how it would be about portability? Thanks, Ronan -- MySQL General Mailing List Fo

Re: Standard of Column Names

2004-04-27 Thread Ronan Lucio
Ruslan, > IMHO: > 1) Table name as prefix is unnecessary for me. It's norwegian notation > which I hate. > 2) Also I recomend look into ANSI SQL standard for reserved keywords. > I've got experience of porting DB from MySQL(allow some keywords) to > another DB, it's pain. Thank you your answer. D

Re: Standard of Column Names

2004-04-27 Thread Ruslan U. Zakirov
Ronan Lucio wrote: Hello, I´m doing the planing for an application that will use MySQL as database. So, I´d like to know your opinions about the standard for the column names. Supposing that I should create a table named car. Is it better to have either the column names (cod, name, description) or

Standard of Column Names

2004-04-27 Thread Ronan Lucio
Hello, I´m doing the planing for an application that will use MySQL as database. So, I´d like to know your opinions about the standard for the column names. Supposing that I should create a table named car. Is it better to have either the column names (cod, name, description) or (car_cod, car_na