>Hi,
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>I have been reading a bunch of articles online of suggested naming conventions for tables. Most - if not all the I found online - suggest defining table names in the plural. I personally don't like it but since most "gurus" advocate plural I was about to use it. But they I saw in my SQL 2005 Unleashed book the author using singular names for tables. So now I have at least one guru on my side <g>. My question is, will my naming of tables - in singular - seem odd to a DBA who will be maintaining my database?
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>TIA.

Using plural for table name makes sense because a table is typically a collection of something ( customers, cars, orders ... ). Using singular would seem to be odd to a DBA bt you can do it (VFP samples also have done that too), it would work.
Cetin