Re: [SQLDownUnder] [SQLStyle] #1: Singular vs Plural Table Naming

[David Spearritt]

What about MarriageRegister. Its singular, but refers to the set of
marriages and their metadata.

David


On 7/9/07, Greg Low <greg.low@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi David,
>
> That's an interesting one. My personal preference is to give the linking table a separate name if I think of it as a separate entity. The acid test for me (no database pun intended) is as soon as I want to add additional columns to it, rather than it just providing the relationship between other tables. As an example, if we had:
>
> Husbands
> Wives
>
> (I know it's contrived :-)
>
> We might have:
>
> Marriages
>
> Rather than HusbandWives :-)
>
> For me, the key thing here (damn another database pun), would be that a "Marriage" would have other attributes like a date and a celebrant, etc.
>
> Thoughts?
>
> Regards,
> Greg
>
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> Subject: Re: [SQLDownUnder] [SQLStyle] #1: Singular vs Plural Table Naming
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> > [CONS] Plurals for table names are generally inconsistent. Some end in "s"
> > others "ies", others "es" or "ys" etc. So there is a higher likelihood of
> > developers misspelling the names.
> >
> > [CONS] When you have a link table, you don't put the plural in each half of
> > the name. CustomerAddresses, not CustomersAddresses, or do you?
>
> I'm with Celko on this. The best name is a singular name that refers
> to the set or collection like CustomerAddressBook.
>
> David Spearritt
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