Do underscores in table names affect performance or cause issues on some platforms?
For example, user_profiles
Would it be better to use userProfiles or is it just a matter of personal preference?
解决方案
Nope. Underscores are perfectly legal in table names.
This page here in the MySQL documentation tells you about what characters are allowed.
Basically:
Permitted characters in unquoted identifiers:
ASCII: [0-9,a-z,A-Z$_]
Extended: U+0080 .. U+FFFF
Permitted characters in quoted identifiers:
ASCII: U+0001 .. U+007F
Extended: U+0080 .. U+FFFF
Personally I tend to stick with lowercase a-z, the occasional number, and underscores.
But as @Vince said, it's just personal preference.