“type” and “class” are likely reserved or problematic words in C# and/or Ruby, two languages I may use to program against my new database schema in the future.

So, in order to avoid potential conflicts with those languages, I’m looking for alternative names for these field names in my tables.

In this case, it is from my Machines table, where I have:

“class” field (values would be something like “manual” or “computerized”)

and

“type” field (values would be “lathe” or “mill”)

I could call the fields “machineclass” and “machinetype”, but that is inconsistent with naming scheme in the rest of my schema (meaning, I do not re-use the table name in the field… For instance, I use Machine.name, not Machine.machinename)

Any thought on this madness?