Rule Definition
If you specify table name too long you won't be able to create it on some database. This will prevent you to use these table name unless you use a Naming Strategy to reduce the length of the table name. To ease portability, choose table name with a length accepted by the majority of database you want to support.

Remediation
Change the table name size or use a Naming Strategy to reduce the table name length. Some facts from http://www.mssqlcity.com/Articles/Compare table name length column name length SQL Server 2000 128 128 ASE 12.5 30 30 MYSQL 4.1 64 64 DB2 8.1 128 128 Oracle 9i 30 30

Violation Code Sample

<class name="cast.core.InputFieldValueResource" table="cast_core_input_field_value_resource">
   ...
</class>

Fixed Code Sample

<class name="cast.core.InputFieldValueResource" table="input_field_value_resource">
   ...
</class>