I graduate from university last year and what you are saying is what i was taught. I irony is that been in the work place for 1 year i have found most of the databases within the company i work for do not follow the way i was taught/you have noted. It's a pain the the butt as it takes ages to understand the database.

Rock on, i wish more "IT/database proffesionals" would read and follow you suggestions, it would save agravation + time