I recently tried creating a new database table only to learn a table with that name exists already.
[me@mysql db] > CREATE TABLE log_search ( log_search_id BIGINT UNSIGNED AUTO_INCREMENT NOT NULL , search VARCHAR(255) , created_by VARCHAR(128), created_on DATETIME) ENGINE=InnoDB CHARSET=utf8; ERROR 1050 (42S01): Table 'log_search' already exists [me@mysql db] > DESC log_search; +---------------+---------------------+------+-----+---------------------+----------------+ | Field | Type | Null | Key | Default | Extra | +---------------+---------------------+------+-----+---------------------+----------------+ | log_search_id | bigint(20) unsigned | | PRI | NULL | auto_increment | | search | varchar(255) | | | | | | created_on | datetime | | | 0000-00-00 00:00:00 | | | created_by | varchar(128) | | | | | +---------------+---------------------+------+-----+---------------------+----------------+ 4 rows in set (0.00 sec)
I love naming conventions! My favorite part of programming is when I start to write a routine only to learn I already wrote it months ago in preparation for what I knew I’d be doing now.
