On Fri, 17 Jun 2005, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>>> Thus, "sys_shared", "def_share", "user_commons" are all sorts of names
>>> that suggest that this is some sort of default/shared area.
>>
>> I like the first. The second and third seem less obvious to me.
>> 'default_shared' should definitely get the point across, though it's a
>> little long.
>
> It strikes me that these names just might have some significance to
> developers but will have none at all for users. I don't heve a better
> alternative ... maybe because the purpose has been expressed somewhat
> fuzzily.
It seems that far and away the most common use of this database will be as
the default database to connect to with any of the client apps. Thus Tom's
suggestion of "default" makes the most sense to me.
Jon
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