Object naming considerations

- [Instructor] I touched on naming consideration … briefly when I warned about including spaces … in your column names earlier on in the course. … But the topic really does warrant … a fuller discussion. … Back in the early days of relational … data base development, computer systems … had very strict requirements for … how objects can be named. … You were limited on the number of characters … you could use, and support for special characters … was non existent. … Today, systems have much more relaxed … requirements, which gives you a lot more freedom … in naming tables and columns … whatever you want, within reason. … But that doesn't mean that you can treat it … like the wild west when it comes to … building an organizational scheme … for your precious data. … So here are some suggestions that … you should think about when naming tables and columns. … First, consider Capitalization. … Most relational data base management systems … are case insensitive, meaning that they don't … care whether you use capital or lower case letters, …