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Naming Is Hard

Tim Mitchell calls out some bad naming practices:

Spaces in object names. The bane of my existence. Most relational databases will allow you to use spaces in object names, requiring anyone accessing that object to put brackets around the name. My rule of thumb is that if it’s something that I will interact with programmatically, it doesn’t get a space in the name. Spaces in object names tend to break things, so please stop doing this.

My favorite naming convention oddity is the idea that if something has “Number” in the name, it’s never a number.