Database Standards

I've been on a run about coding standards lately, reading about them, figuring out which to follow and which to not follow. Well one thing I had not been looking at much was database standards. I realized I had a bunch of questions; how do you name tables, according to what schema, are views concatenated names correlated to their respective tables, do stored procedures have verb noun correlation, do functions get named similar to stored procedures, do we prefix database objects with shortened abbreviations and such related to what they are? Well I've started keeping a list of things I'm starting to prefer when designing and building a database. Enjoy...