What is the best practice in naming your “user” table?

Question

Here\'s three best practices I try to follow when naming tables:

• Never name a table with plural (such as \"users\")
• Never name a table using a reserve

Answer 1

I use CakePHP rules even when I don't use the framework :

Table names are by convention lowercase and pluralized with multi-word table names separated by underscores. For example, a Model name of Ingredient expects the table name ingredients. Model name of EventRegistration would expect a table name of event_registrations.