我的观点是:

1)不，表名应该是单数。

虽然对于简单的选择(select * from Orders)似乎有意义，但对于OO等效(Orders x = new Orders)则没有意义。

数据库中的表实际上是该实体的集合，当你使用set-logic时，它更有意义:

select Orders.*
from Orders inner join Products
    on Orders.Key = Products.Key

最后一行，连接的实际逻辑，看起来与复数表名混淆。

我不确定是否总是使用别名(如Matt建议的那样)可以消除这种情况。

2)它们应该是单数，因为它们只拥有一种属性

3)如果列名有歧义(如上所述，它们都有一个名为[Key]的列)，表名(或其别名)永远不能很好地区分它们。您希望查询能够快速键入，并且简单-前缀会增加不必要的复杂性。

4)无论你想要什么，我都推荐CapitalCase

我不认为有任何一套绝对的指导方针。

只要你在应用程序或数据库中选择的是一致的，我不认为这真的很重要。

这里有一个链接，提供了一些选择。我正在寻找一个简单的规范，我可以遵循，而不是依赖于一个部分定义的规范。

http://justinsomnia.org/writings/naming_conventions.html

表名:它应该是单数，因为它是一个表示真实世界对象的单数实体，而不是表示对象的单数实体。

列名:它应该是单数，只有这样它才表示它将持有一个原子值，并将确认归一化理论。然而，如果有n个相同类型的属性，那么它们应该以1,2，…作为后缀。n，等等。

表/列前缀:这是一个巨大的主题，将在后面讨论。

外壳:应该是驼色的

我的朋友Patrick Karcher，我请求你不要写任何可能冒犯别人的东西，就像你写的那样，“此外，外键必须在不同的表中一致命名。如果有人不这样做，殴打他应该是合法的。”我从来没有犯过这样的错误，我的朋友帕特里克，但我写一般。如果他们一起打算为此揍你呢?：）

SELECT 
   UserID, FirstName, MiddleInitial, LastName
FROM Users
ORDER BY LastName

基本数据库命名约定(和样式)(点击这里查看更详细的描述)

表名 选择简短、明确的名字，不要超过一两个单词 容易区分表 方便唯一字段名的命名以及查找和链接表 给表取单数名，而不是复数名(更新:我仍然同意这种惯例的原因，但大多数人真的喜欢复数表名，所以我的立场软化了)…请点击上面的链接

我们的偏好:

Should table names be plural? Never. The arguments for it being a collection make sense, but you never know what the table is going to contain (0,1 or many items). Plural rules make the naming unnecessarily complicated. 1 House, 2 houses, mouse vs mice, person vs people, and we haven't even looked at any other languages. Update person set property = 'value' acts on each person in the table. Select * from person where person.name = 'Greg' returns a collection/rowset of person rows. Should column names be singular? Usually, yes, except where you are breaking normalisation rules. Should I prefix tables or columns? Mostly a platform preference. We prefer to prefix columns with the table name. We don't prefix tables, but we do prefix views (v_) and stored_procedures (sp_ or f_ (function)). That helps people who want to try to upday v_person.age which is actually a calculated field in a view (which can't be UPDATEd anyway). It is also a great way to avoid keyword collision (delivery.from breaks, but delivery_from does not). It does make the code more verbose, but often aids in readability. bob = new person() bob.person_name = 'Bob' bob.person_dob = '1958-12-21' ... is very readable and explicit. This can get out of hand though: customer.customer_customer_type_id indicates a relationship between customer and the customer_type table, indicates the primary key on the customer_type table (customer_type_id) and if you ever see 'customer_customer_type_id' whilst debugging a query, you know instantly where it is from (customer table). or where you have a M-M relationship between customer_type and customer_category (only certain types are available to certain categories) customer_category_customer_type_id ... is a little (!) on the long side. Should I use any case in naming items? Yes - lower case :), with underscores. These are very readable and cross platform. Together with 3 above it also makes sense. Most of these are preferences though. - As long as you are consistent, it should be predictable for anyone that has to read it.