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Tim Wang
9,068 Pointsmodel name vs table name
Since "model" in ORM equals "table" in database and we communicate with DB through ORM, why do we care about table names? (in Movie.init(), it seems that we can set table name to whatever we like and different from model name)
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Robert Manolis
Treehouse Guest TeacherHey Tim Wang, it's a preference thing as I understand it. It's just a way of providing the option of customizing the table name. Here's a Sequelize doc that talks more about this.