Good practice guidelines for name elements in a database
Good practice guidelines for name elements in a database
A friend told me about good practice guidelines for name a database. This is like everything in the life, it takes experience, but the basics I usually follow would be summarized as:
Each table with a field called id autonumeric that is Primary Key (PK). ALL tables must ALWAYS have PK.
Though it's obvious, no accents.
Names of fields and descriptive tables, in lowercase and with underscores. Not PascalCase, camelCase, kebab-case. Try to use snake_case.
Name of the tables in plural. For example: users, animals. If there is a pivot table of an N:N relationship, for example between users and roles, it is sorted in alphabetical order and singular. In this case, user_role.
Foreign keys will have the suffix id. In the previous pivot table, we would have in the user_role table: user_id and role_id.
The names of the fields must be descriptive and without shortening as far as possible, in singular. No observ, so observation. Although there are exceptions if they are well known: dto (=discount), c_postal (postal code),....
No
Primary Foreign Keys orcompound PKs.
Do you have any more advice?. See you in the comments.