Description
In my fork, I've added some stuff about how to use EBR.
Database Object Naming Conventions
Never enclose object names (table names, column names, etc.) in double quotes to enforce mixed case or lower case object names in the data dictionary.
Edition Based Redefinition (EBR) is one major exception to this guideline. When naming tables that will be covered by editioning views, it is preferable to name the covered table in lower case begining with an underscore (for example: "_employee"). The base table will be covered by an editioning view that has the name employee. This greatly simplifies migration from non-EBR systems to EBR systems since all existing code already references data stored in employee. "Embracing the abomination of forced lower case names" highlights the fact that these objects shouldn't be directly referenced (execpt, obviously, by forward and reverse cross edition triggers during edition migration, and simple auditing/surrogate key triggers, if they are used). Since developers and users should only be referencing data through editioning views (which to them are effectively the tables of the applications) they won't be tempted to use the base table. In addition, when using tools to look at the list of tables, all editioning view covered tables will be aligned together and thus clearly delinated from non-covered tables.
There is a whole lot of confusion about EBR in general (hence this: https://insum.ca/resources/webinars/ on Dec 4th, and at Kscope), and I'd like to have more, but the above was the start was the start...
New rule? Update to naming standards? Not sure...