Re: SQL Naming Conventions

Very good advice to assign long SQL names. Your data should be consumable
by query users outside IT/IS, and your data will be a lot more meaningful
to them using long names.

IMO, for new development, use of the long names should be enforced by
standards / code review. Developers should have efficient tools to fetch a
the list of columns from a table, so they can copy/paste them instead of
keying them.

Mike

date: Fri, 26 Feb 2016 14:22:24 -0500
from: Charles Wilt <charles.wilt@xxxxxxxxx>
subject: Re: SQL Naming Conventions

Get a copy of this book, Joe Celko's "SQL Programming Style".

Note that for IBM i, current best practice would be to assign a long SQL
name along with a 10 character short name.

Charles