How do you guys name columns in a database table? At work we've had a consistent way of doing it: Suppose there's a table of users. They will each have a unique ID, a password, and other typical ...

“Data-Driven Thinking” is written by members of the media community and contains fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Today’s column is written by Katrin Ribant, co-founder and chief ...

In the perfect world, your object model would map seamlessly to your database schema. Most organizations however, have database naming standards, requirements for how relationships are modeled and ...

Whenever I get into a discussion about database standards I invariably bring up one of my favorite quotes on the topic: “The best thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from.” It ...