Comments on: Initiation by fire – part 2 http://www.danahern.com/2007/10/14/initiation-by-fire-part-2/ Rails Developer Wed, 10 Mar 2010 02:05:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Dan on Rails: Part Two at Powered By Geek http://www.danahern.com/2007/10/14/initiation-by-fire-part-2/comment-page-1/#comment-139 Dan on Rails: Part Two at Powered By Geek Tue, 16 Oct 2007 17:31:02 +0000 http://dahern.poweredbygeek.net/2007/10/14/initiation-by-fire-part-2/#comment-139 [...] Dan’s successful attempt to outshine all the other PBG bloggers, may we present “Trial By Fire - Part 2“  Dan’s latest installment on moving to [...] [...] Dan’s successful attempt to outshine all the other PBG bloggers, may we present “Trial By Fire – Part 2“  Dan’s latest installment on moving to [...]

]]> By: will http://www.danahern.com/2007/10/14/initiation-by-fire-part-2/comment-page-1/#comment-140 will Tue, 16 Oct 2007 03:21:44 +0000 http://dahern.poweredbygeek.net/2007/10/14/initiation-by-fire-part-2/#comment-140 Some interesting stuff about naming! Interestingly, naming is a subject that comes up quite a lot in the world of databases as well. I thought I'd add some considerations from the database point of view for everyone to think about. 1. There are a ton of great books on design, naming, etc. My personal favorite is Joe Celko's SQL Programming Style. 2. The character '_' is a reserved character in LIKE comparisons in SQL...it stands for any single character. 3. If you have time (like, a week?) check out the ISO/IEC 11179 standards, which detail what is appropriate for data element names in general according to ISO. 4. The best piece of advice that I ever got for naming was "name it what it is, if people call your data something in the real world, name it that...and take care to pay special attention to multiple vs. single sets like employee vs employees." If you like reading out this stuff, I'd encourage reading some of Celko's older posts on the Microsoft SQL newsgroup, he REALLY tears into people...tough love at its finest. (microsoft.public.sqlserver.programming) Some interesting stuff about naming! Interestingly, naming is a subject that comes up quite a lot in the world of databases as well. I thought I’d add some considerations from the database point of view for everyone to think about.

1. There are a ton of great books on design, naming, etc. My personal favorite is Joe Celko’s SQL Programming Style.

2. The character ‘_’ is a reserved character in LIKE comparisons in SQL…it stands for any single character.

3. If you have time (like, a week?) check out the ISO/IEC 11179 standards, which detail what is appropriate for data element names in general according to ISO.

4. The best piece of advice that I ever got for naming was “name it what it is, if people call your data something in the real world, name it that…and take care to pay special attention to multiple vs. single sets like employee vs employees.”

If you like reading out this stuff, I’d encourage reading some of Celko’s older posts on the Microsoft SQL newsgroup, he REALLY tears into people…tough love at its finest. (microsoft.public.sqlserver.programming)

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