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no underscores either? What are we, apes?
I tend to use underscores on join tables so table
foo_bar
would have a fooid and a barid. I have somewhat soured on this approach though since there are a lot of situations where you'll have two m-m relationships between the same two tables with a different meaning... and having a fixed formula for m-m tables can make things ugly.If I get to design another greenfield database I'll probably prefer using underscores for word boundaries in long table names.