I’m currently working with a data table that stores member information. In the table itself, the member’s first and last names are each stored as the following respectively:
mbr_1st_nam
mbr_lst_nam
I don’t know who chose these names, but this definitely begs for reconsideration. 1 and l are too close in design in some fonts, and when playing around with large amounts of TSQL in terminal like fonts, I don’t want to have to strain or waste additional time wondering if that’s an l or 1.
So what do these names really save here? One letter each? Was the trade-off truly worth this?
I could understand that obeying the whole “make names you can pronounce when abbreviating” aspect is maintained, but this was not the way to go. For me, this definitely should have been mbr_first_nam and mbr_last_nam at the least.
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