pwildenhain

I think it depends on if your table names are readable or not. If you table names are "sales" and "orders" then I would argue that makes the sql a lot more readable i.e

sales.amount orders.due_date

vs

s.amount ord.due_date

In the second example I have to flip back and forth between the join statement in order to know where the columns are coming from.

If you have awful table names though like qq123xc then I think aliasing would be appropriate