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The power of a good SQL naming convention with 9 comments At my previous employer, one of the early decisions that had huge payoffs later was the SQL naming conventions. A good naming convention is more than just a nicety. It lets you write programs that don’t need to be told about the relationships among tables and columns.

Hi all, I got some great news last night. David Van Couvering announced that the Sakila sample database was available on the Update Center. For those of you unfamiliar with Sakila, it is a very big sample database with a lot of data. It's a great database for fully testing features of MySQL.