• I would never allow spaces. It creates far too much confusion and potential issues with "ProductID" and "ProductID ". Even "Product ID" can be misread.
    Underscores I dislike, but if that's what's there, I wouldn't refactor.

    I did see a design presentation that I liked. This made every column name unique, so that we always knew were data was. This was something like:

    create table product
    ( Productkey int
    , Productname varchar
    , productdescription
    )
    create table order
    (orderkey int
    , OrderProductKey int references Product(productkey)
    , qty int
    )

    I'm torn on this. Knowing every item is interseting. Not sure of the value, and if you didn't have DRI this could be a mess, but it was interesting food for thought.

    I am a bit fan of describing  columns  more completely with intellisense and 128 char identifiers. Make it easy to understand the column.