Sunday, September 11, 2011

Re: Admin Site appending letter "s" to end of each model\table name

On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 11:06 PM, Shawn Milochik <shawn@milochik.com> wrote:
> The way you were doing it makes perfect sense if you have experience
> creating database tables by hand, the way most people do for their PHP and
> ASP apps. Django's ORM is doing all the same stuff underneath, but it
> provides a level of abstraction that makes it (much) easier to do common
> things, and it's a bit different than the "old way."

AFAICT, most SQL database design texts advice on using singular nouns
for table names. ORMs inherited that practice.

of course, as a newbie, I also made the mistake of using plural names
very often, until I found that advice; and I can say that it really
sounds better after a while.

--
Javier

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