I would suggest using the following naming conventions when working with naming conventions. Why? Naming conventions are good as it makes it easier for you and your fellow developers to read the existing packages. Why this set? The list comes from the Microsoft most valued professional (MVP )Jamie Thomson. The list is taken from this post
The acronymns below should be used at the beginning of the names of tasks to identify what type of task it is.
| Task | Prefix |
| For Loop Container | FLC |
| Foreach Loop Container | FELC |
| Sequence Container | SEQC |
| ActiveX Script | AXS |
| Analysis Services Execute DDL | ASE |
| Analysis Services Processing | ASP |
| Bulk Insert | BLK |
| Data Flow | DFT |
| Data Mining Query | DMQ |
| Execute DTS 2000 Package | EDPT |
| Execute Package | EPT |
| Execute Process | EPR |
| Execute SQL | SQL |
| File System | FSYS |
| FTP | FTP |
| Message Queue | MSMQ |
| Script | SCR |
| Send Mail | SMT |
| Transfer Database | TDB |
| Transfer Error Messages | TEM |
| Transfer Jobs | TJT |
| Transfer Logins | TLT |
| Transfer Master Stored Procedures | TSP |
| Transfer SQL Server Objects | TSO |
| Web Service | WST |
| WMI Data Reader | WMID |
| WMI Event Watcher | WMIE |
| XML | XML |
These acronymns should be used at the beginning of the names of components to identify what type of component it is.
| Component | Prefix |
| DataReader Source | DR_SRC |
| Excel Source | EX_SRC |
| Flat File Source | FF_SRC |
| OLE DB Source | OLE_SRC |
| Raw File Source | RF_SRC |
| XML Source | XML_SRC |
| Aggregate | AGG |
| Audit | AUD |
| Character Map | CHM |
| Conditional Split | CSPL |
| Copy Column | CPYC |
| Data Conversion | DCNV |
| Data Mining Query | DMQ |
| Derived Column | DER |
| Export Column | EXPC |
| Fuzzy Grouping | FZG |
| Fuzzy Lookup | FZL |
| Import Column | IMPC |
| Lookup | LKP |
| Merge | MRG |
| Merge Join | MRGJ |
| Multicast | MLT |
| OLE DB Command | CMD |
| Percentage Sampling | PSMP |
| Pivot | PVT |
| Row Count | CNT |
| Row Sampling | RSMP |
| Script Component | SCR |
| Slowly Changing Dimension | SCD |
| Sort | SRT |
| Term Extraction | TEX |
| Term Lookup | TEL |
| Union All | ALL |
| Unpivot | UPVT |
| Data Mining Model Training | DMMT_DST |
| DataReader Destination | DR_DST |
| Dimension Processing | DP_DST |
| Excel Destination | EX_DST |
| Flat File Destination | FF_DST |
| OLE DB Destination | OLE_DST |
| Partition Processing | PP_DST |
| Raw File Destination | RF_DST |
| Recordset Destination | RS_DST |
| SQL Server Destination | SS_DST |
| SQL Server Mobile Destination | SSM_DST |