What does your company use for its server naming scheme? I have probably seen mountains most often (e.g. everest, fuji). I'm looking for suggestions as we're building out a proposal at my company for ...

Readers reflect back to the days when naming their servers involved imagination and the ability to possess a sense of humor. When we asked Redmond readers to report their most creative server naming ...

I've never seen a document, but I've thought about this one a lot.<BR><BR>In general, a naming convention in SQL needs 3 things:<BR><LI>A capitalization scheme ...

What’s in a name? When it comes to servers, as it turns out, quite a lot. Server names are designed for functionality: They let system administrators easily identify each machine and keep track of ...

Whenever I teach Learning Tree's course on Design Patterns and Best Practices, I begin the class by asking for some examples of best practices. "Naming conventions" comes up every time. It's obviously ...

New developers can easily become overwhelmed or even confused by the vast number of terms and definitions associated with their profession. In particular, one of the biggest challenges that software ...