mysql naming convention

Question

I have generally always used some sort of Hungarian Notation for my field names in my tables e.g.

#Table Users
u_id, u_name, u_email etc...

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Answer 1

I personally use lowercase for table names and pluralize. Tables such as 'people' with person records. But I got that from Rails and adopted it after time. Love it though, and this made my databases a whole lot readable. Also using so many underscores will make your databases less readable. Also I divide my database names using _ for development, test, production, alpha, beta, prototype. Once you worked with 100,000 tables or so, you'll stop writing names with too many underscores :)

Answer 2

This seems like one of those questions where you'll get numerous answers, all of which are "right." Different teams and environments will prefer different conventions. I even find that my own practice will vary from project to project a little. The only suggestions I could offer are

1. be consistent within projects,
2. don't be overly-verbose,
3. and don't use reserved words

Just my two cents. Wiki'd.

Answer 3

The best practice is the most comfortable for you or your team. Every programmer has it's own opinion about using notations.

Answer 4

Depends on your working style. There are no fixed set of rules.

I use camelcase tableNameFieldName for e.g catID, catName, catDesc