SQL Table Aliases – Good or Bad? [closed]

Table aliases are a necessary evil when dealing with highly normalized schemas. For example, and I’m not the architect on this DB so bear with me, it can take 7 joins in order to get a clean and complete record back which includes a person’s name, address, phone number and company affiliation.

Rather than the somewhat standard single character aliases, I tend to favor short word aliases so the above example’s SQL ends up looking like:

select person.FirstName
      ,person.LastName
      ,addr.StreetAddress
      ,addr.City
      ,addr.State
      ,addr.Zip
      ,phone.PhoneNumber
      ,company.CompanyName
from tblPeople person
left outer join tblAffiliations affl on affl.personID = person.personID
left outer join tblCompany company on company.companyID = affl.companyID

… etc