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Re: Naming conventions for special database objects

by Marco Mariani <marco@[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Apr 29, 2008 at 04:11 PM

Philipp Post wrote:

> you will not find examples on naming boolean columns in "SQL
> programming style" as page 42 mentiones, this data type should be
> avoided. Indeed in most cases there are better ways to model the data
> than with BIT columns. In cases where you can not avoid it (or choose
> not to do),

If you mean avoiding non-standard extensions, my so-called "booleans" 
are actually defined with INTEGER foo NOT NULL CHECK (foo BETWEEN 0 AND 
1), and always will be as long as I have breath.

> 2004], [Watt 2004] to ensure that the meaning of the data is not
> ambiguous. See these links:
> http://weblogs.asp.net/jamauss/articles/DatabaseNamingConventions.aspx
> http://justinsomnia.org/writings/naming_conventions.htm

Thank you very much.
I've never been imposed styles or best practices, so in forming my own 
blend, the more references I have, the better.

> Personally I like the pascal case naming convention there what solves
> the problem of acronyms and abbreviations and says that all
> abbreviations with two letters are to be uppercased, such as ID or DB
> and with three or more letters follow the pascal case convention, i.
> e. first upper, following lower cased e.g. EanCode.

Oh, no, this is not my piece of case.

(ahah. pun.)
 




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Naming conventions for special database objects
Philipp Post <Post.Phi  2008-04-27 13:13:06 
Re: Naming conventions for special database objects
--CELKO-- <jcelko212@[  2008-04-28 07:28:09 
Re: Naming conventions for special database objects
"Carl Kayser" &  2008-04-28 11:12:23 
Re: Naming conventions for special database objects
--CELKO-- <jcelko212@[  2008-04-28 13:00:10 
Re: Naming conventions for special database objects
Philipp Post <Post.Phi  2008-04-29 05:01:58 
Re: Naming conventions for special database objects
Marco Mariani <marco@[  2008-04-29 14:27:31 
Re: Naming conventions for special database objects
Philipp Post <Post.Phi  2008-04-29 06:09:15 
Re: Naming conventions for special database objects
Marco Mariani <marco@[  2008-04-29 16:11:07 
Re: Naming conventions for special database objects
--CELKO-- <jcelko212@[  2008-04-29 08:22:47 
Re: Naming conventions for special database objects
--CELKO-- <jcelko212@[  2008-04-29 08:41:10 
Re: Naming conventions for special database objects
Marco Mariani <marco@[  2008-04-30 11:13:44 
Re: Naming conventions for special database objects
Philipp Post <Post.Phi  2008-04-29 11:08:57 
Re: Naming conventions for special database objects
Marco Mariani <marco@[  2008-04-30 11:15:33 
Re: Naming conventions for special database objects
Philipp Post <Post.Phi  2008-04-29 11:16:55 
Re: Naming conventions for special database objects
--CELKO-- <jcelko212@[  2008-04-29 14:42:25 
Re: Naming conventions for special database objects
--CELKO-- <jcelko212@[  2008-04-30 08:38:46 
Re: Naming conventions for special database objects
Marco Mariani <marco@[  2008-04-30 18:39:22 

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