Schema - Do you create a consistent primary key column on your tables?
Updated by Brady Stroud [SSW] 1 year ago. See history
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Make sure you created a consistent primary key column named Id on your tables.
Employee.ID, Employee.EmployeeId, Employee.EmployeeID, Employee.Employee_Code, Employee.Employee
❌ Figure: Figure: Bad example
Employee.Id
✅ Figure: Figure: Good example
Why?
- We shouldn’t capitalise ID (identifier) as it is an abbreviation not an acronym.
- Using the approach [TableName]Id, e.g. EmployeeId, is redundant as we already know the context of the Id.