Comments on: Singular vs. plural table names

By: HoppingYop

HoppingYop — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 15:07:21 +0000

Maybe Microsoft should follow the singular convention too and rename “my documents” to “my document” and “Program Files” to “Program File”, the “Users” folder to “User”, “Downloads” to “Download”…. that all makes much more sense doesn’t it? The drawer where I keep my bank statements will be labeled… “statement” lol

By: Jonathan Wood

Jonathan Wood — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 19:52:07 +0000

If I have a bag of apples, I don’t call it “bag” or “bags”. I call it “apples”. And if I have a table of customers, I don’t call it “table” or “tables”, I call it “customers”.

Logically, that makes the most sense to me. However, I’m getting into the ADO.NET Entity Frameworks and am finding reasons to break what is most logical to me in favor of something that can produce better constructs within that paradigm.

EF has a name for both an entity and an entity set. That’s why I’m researching this today. However, my mind has not yet been made up.

By: Hao

Hao — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 01:21:50 +0000

@James: dui :)

By: Hao

Hao — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 01:21:31 +0000

@James: ? :)

By: James

James — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 01:30:07 +0000

If we were all Chinese, we wouldn’t be having this discussion. =)