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[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Speaking as a Senior Dev specialized in database access and design... you don't have to use all caps - SQL is actually case agnostic.

But... but my fucking eyes man. I'm old, if your branch doesn't have control keywords in all caps I'm going to take it out back and ol' yeller it.

There are few hills I'll die on but all caps SQL and singular table names are two of them.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Singular table names? You savage…

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

It's an English literacy thing - we have several non-native English speakers and using only singular avoids making those folks' lives harder. Besides it's really nice to autopilot that categoryid is a foreign key to the category table. It also simplifies always plural words... I haven't yet written CREATE TABLE pants but if I ever do there's zero chance of me creating a pantid.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

no underscores either? What are we, apes?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I'm a sql developer, and I am completely the opposite to you. I will find it incredibly difficult to read when everything is in caps

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago

You should do a project together