Ideally you have some kind of naming convention. Since ideals seem to rarely happen, I think "Something" would be ok as a column name. A good column name is descriptive without being overly long - I'd say between 3 and 12 characters. The best you can do is be consistent, don't mix styles, such as 'some_thing' in one table and 'somethingelse' in another. When I use my column names in code, I want the column name to be self describing so that someone doing maintenance work on the code can quickly and easily see what I am doing. I also prefer mixed case object names - SomeThing rather than SOMETHING.

Consistency is the BP.

Andy