These are naming and abbreviation conventions for tables, fields, and other objects used by the Marquette BI team.

Cases

1. Databases, schemas, tables and fields should all be in lower case (table1.field1).
2. Parameters and variables should be in camel case (myVariables, myParameter).

Underscores

1. Tables and fields should have descriptive names with words separated by underscores: f_student_details, d_term_dates.

Prefixes and suffixes

1. Fact tables should begin with the prefix "f_"
2. Dimension tables should begin with the prefix "d_"
3. Summary tables should begin with the prefix "s_"
4. Calculated measure tables should begin with the prefix "m_"

Abbreviation standards for other common words:

WORD	ABRV
career	car
category	cat
code	code
completion	compl
course	crse
description	desc
date	dt
enroll	enrl
indicator	ind
number	nbr
percent	pct
primary	pri
program	prog
status	stat

Flags and Indicators

In most every case the suffix "ind" should be used for indicator or flag type fields. In general, the value for these fields should by Y or N as the indicator. In some cases where there will be lots of look ups or sums, 0/1 can be used in place of the characters Y/N.