Sql naming best practice

Question

I\'m not entirely sure if there\'s a standard in the industry or otherwise, so I\'m asking here.

I\'m naming a Users table, and I\'m not entire

Answer 1

prefixes like that are pointless, unless you have something a little more arbitrary; like two addresses. Then you might use address_1, address_2, address_home, etc

Same with phone numbers.

But for something as static as age, gender, username, etc; I would just leave them like that.

Just to show you If you WERE to prefix all of those fields, your queries might look like this

SELECT users.user_id FROM users WHERE users.user_name = "Jim"

When it could easily be

SELECT id FROM users WHERE username = "Jim"