Meaningless Name

This smell occurs when a table or an attribute name is cryptic or meaningless.

Meaningless or cryptic names hamper readability of the database's schema.

Example

CREATE TABLE master (
id TEXT PRIMARY KEY,
tx0 INTEGER,
tx1 TEXT,
-- other attributes
);

Reference

Redgate, “119 SQL Code Smells,” 2017.


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