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Creating your MySQL Database: Practical Design Tips and Techniques
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Here we touch a subject that can become sensitive. Establishing a naming convention is not easily done, because it can interfere with the psychology of the designers.
Programmers and designers usually think of themselves as imaginative, creative people; UI design and data model are the areas in which they want to express those qualities. Since naming is writing, they want to put a personal stamp to the column and table names. This is why working as a team for data structure design necessitates a good dose of humility and achieves good results only if everyone is a good team player.
Also, when looking at the work of others in this area, there is a great temptation to improve the data elements names. Some discipline in the standardization has to be applied and all the team members have to collaborate.
Probably because older database systems had severe restrictions about the representation of variables and data elements in general, the...
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