Rank would be too generic for me. I would require some additional word as part of the column name. AgeRank or the like. Alternately, a non-singular writing of it such as Ranking, but preferably the more descriptive two word naming.
On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 3:34 PM, DURETTE, STEVEN J <sd1...@att.com> wrote: > > You might want to reconsider that. It could bite you in the future. > > I had a table built in SQL 2000 that had a field RANK. All of my queries > referenced it as [RANK] and everyone made fun of me because of putting the > [] around objects. When we were upgraded to sql 2008 (yes there was a > version skip) all of my stuff worked just fine, but a lot of theirs gave > weird results because RANK became a function and a reserved word in SQL. > Using [], "" or whatever your specific DB uses allows for future proofing. > > Steve > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Michael Dinowitz [mailto:mdino...@houseoffusion.com] > Sent: Wednesday, January 22, 2014 2:35 PM > To: sql > Subject: Re: underscore prefix for table name > > > My style rejects anything that would require me to use brackets around a > table, column, or any other name. > > > On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 8:11 PM, George Gallen <g_gal...@hotmail.com> > wrote: > > > > > You could always surround it with [ and ] like [_TABLENAME_] > > > > > On Jan 21, 2014, at 8:01 PM, "Michael Dinowitz" < > > mdino...@houseoffusion.com> wrote: > > > > > > > > > I use an underscore for look-up tables in an MS SQL2008 DB. To me, a > > > look-up table is anything that will almost never change. Things like > > > _roles, _states, _ethnicity. According to one book, an underscore as a > > > prefix should not be allowed but in practice it does not seem to cause > > any > > > problems. > > > Has anyone seen any problems with this? I'm writing up a sql > conventions > > > spec for a contract. > > > > > > Thanks > > > Michael > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/sql/message.cfm/messageid:3529 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/sql/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/sql/unsubscribe.cfm
