Naming conventions for user-created/custom tables in HANA?

[Former Member]

Question:

Is it HANA best practice to continue following ECC custom table names ie. "ZTABLE" when creating tables that are going to live in the HANA catalog?

Is there any inherent risk introduced by just creating a table named "TABLE" and then continue on with whatever naming convention you choose?

Thoughts?

[lbreddemann · Accepted solution]

As you wouldn't create any objects in the SAP application schema, there are no restrictions on how to name your own objects.

However, naming your development objects typically is an important step in the development, so you shouldn't start off with bogus names. Naming conventions are there to guide the developer to create coherence in the way objects are named - not to dictate the names of the objects.

Use the names and the naming style that best suits your application.

Having said that, if you follow the recommended approach to develop CDS and repository artifacts, part of the resulting object names will be automatically build from the package and the schema your application is built into.

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Thank you for your quick response!

We are planning on using CDS for all development objects as we are anticipating the shift with the upgrade in SPS 11 which is why I wanted to establish a hard guideline of our development approach when it comes to custom artifacts.