Personally I would rather have descriptive variable names such as "this_goes_to_db" or something to that effect. But then the question is how long is too long?

Personally I would rather have descriptive variable names such as "this_goes_to_db" or something to that effect. But then the question is how long is too long? and by me practising that I find my code it readable but at the same time uneccesarily verbose.