Re: Does this happen to you at work?

From: Jared Still <jkstill_at_gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 10 May 2005 11:39:34 -0700
Message-ID: <bf46380505101139126ae208@mail.gmail.com>

On 5/10/05, stephen booth <stephenbooth.uk_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I'm currently in the process of putting together a standards document
> for Oracle databases and am including a passage stating that databases
> shall have meaningful names relating to their purpose.

Why is that better than meaningless names?

Consider a database hosting 3 different unrelated applicatons.

What would be a meaningful name for that database?

Meaningful names can also be considered a security risk, just as they are with servers.

Ours are named tsxx, prxx, dvxx and qaxx, where x is a digit.

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Jared Still
Certifiable Oracle DBA and Part Time Perl Evangelist

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