• nogooduser@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    I don’t understand why people think that it’s acceptable.

    As developers, we’ve had it drummed into us from day one that variable names are important and shouldn’t be one or two letters.

    Yet developers deliberately alias an easy to read table name such as “customer” into “c” because that’s the first letter of the table. I’m sure that it’s more work to do that with auto completion meaning that you don’t even need to type out “customer”.

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      6 months ago

      Especially when you also have company and county tables. It forces people to look up what the c is aliased to before beginning to comprehend what you’re doing.