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Michael Lawson

"Use underscore_names instead of CamelCase Nope, Use CamelCase as it reads more fluent and conforms better to the actual code it's being used."

I guess if the only language you use is C# then this makes sense. Otherwise why are you tying naming to the programming language in use? It should be totally agnostic. This is just bad practice in the first place.

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SuperDre

It's got nothing to do with the language I'm using, I'm using even multiple languages. But it's got all to do with what I think reads better and looks more clean, and even less typing. everything lowercase and using underscores is like writing ancient english to me, it's just ugly.
And calling lowercase/underscore best practice, is all in the eye of the beholder. Most people I work with use the CamelCasing with the database designs now.
In reality, in these cases there is no real best practice, it's just what you prefer.

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Michael Lawson

"conforms better to the actual code being used" directly implies the language you're using because it's not true in all cases (that it conforms) by a long shot.

I've never in my life seen that kind of casing in database design, like ever. Not sure who you're working with or where but yeah, I think this ain't the hill to die on.