• No "standard" guidelines, no, but here are a few things that I stick to.  There will be exceptions to nearly all of them!

    (1) Choose the clustered index key carefully - but do include one
    (2) The table should have a primary key constraint
    (3) Referential integrity should be enforced with foreign key constraints
    (4) Use a consistent convention for naming columns, tables, constraints and so on
    (5) Don't use spaces, hyphens or a host of other characters in object and column names.  Avoid reserved keywords also
    (6) Choose data types appropriately
    (7) Make full use of CHECK and DEFAULT constraints.

    I could go on - but I'll leave it to others to add to (or disagree with parts of) the list.

    John