Interesting Discussion so far.

My opinion is that autogrowth should be considered a contingency feature. Every time there is a growth there will likely be disk fragmentation...

My Opinion

, which is the way i always do it

, is not to confuse the issue but rather

: to simply use grammer as gramer is meant to be ie

:- not...

" I would need to be familiar with the database and the naming convention to know it."

Maybe, im being harsh (no thing persona to anyone) but... To be able to...

There are far more important things to make code readable than naming conventions on table aliasses.

Ive been in the SQL Server industry for many years, and to be honest using...