Re: Does this happen to you at work?

Last year I administer Oracle DB that use by Baltimore (PKI software) now the company name is Cyber Trust (something like that) they name their tables seems like encrypted word just like Oracle base tables.

Only one table can be read which is Audit_Trail

When I was at school my teacher always say, when you name your variables or module you better give a meaningful name so that entire application is easy to maintain (by others off course).

• Original Message ----- From: "Jared Still" <jkstill_at_gmail.com> To: <stephenbooth.uk_at_gmail.com> Cc: <all_about_oracle_at_hotpop.com>; <oracle-l_at_freelists.org> Sent: Wednesday, May 11, 2005 2:39 AM Subject: Re: Does this happen to you at work?

> 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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