Prisma how to create a model when database table has hyphen in it?

i have tables in my database with hyphen, like "user-cars". I cannot change the name to "user_cars". Is there a way to name the model as "user_cars" but make it reference the "user-cars" table? I tried @@map("user_cars"), but it didn't work.

According to the docs, you'd map the model to the underlying table name. You tried user_cars but did you try user-cars? If your table name is user-cars then you should map that to your model like:

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model UserCar {
  // Fields

  @@map("user-cars")
}

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https://www.prisma.io/docs/concepts/components/prisma-schema/names-in-underlying-database

Their example is:

> However, you can still choose Comment as the name of the model (e.g.
> to follow the naming convention) without renaming the underlying
> comments table in the database by using the @@map attribute:

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model Comment {
  // Fields

  @@map("comments")
}

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The model names typically follow the convention where the underlying table is plural, and the model name itself is singular. Ideally you should use UserCar as the model name instead of user_cars.

https://www.prisma.io/docs/reference/api-reference/prisma-schema-reference#naming-conventions

I hope that helps!