About this episode
Steve Jones discusses the challenges of poor naming conventions in databases and the implications for product feedback.
It's always interesting to me when I give product feedback to engineers at Redgate on their demos. Quite often they've built a feature that uses AdventureWorks or Pagila (PostgreSQL) or some other well known schema to evaluate how their particular thing works with a database. I try to remind them that many databases aren't well modeled and designed with consistent naming. I ran across a Daily WTF article that isn't showcasing databases, but it does show some poor naming in data being stored in a PDF. The developer who had to automate a process had to map these fields to database fields, which also might not be named very clearly. In fact, I think I've seen a few database models that used column names like the field names in the PDF. Read the rest of Poor Names
People in this episode
Host: Steve Jones
Topics covered
- database design
- naming conventions
- product feedback
- data modeling
- automation
Keywords
- database
- naming
- feedback
- modeling
- automation
- fields
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Redgate, Daily WTF
Books & works: AdventureWorks, Pagila
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