Re: Naming Convention for Columns

In article <3505ad61.266543_at_read.news.global.net.uk>, Keith Boulton <boulkenospam_at_globalnet.co.uk> writes

>Having said that, I did work for an organisation once which had DB2
>naming conventions where table and column names were limited to 8
>characters. The first three characters were a system mnemonic,
>followed by a five digit number i.e. select xyz00024, xyz00057 from
>xyz11003.

That's nothing! I worked for an international (US based) company which had one system with 4 character column names. These were abbreviations of the full attribute names - in Norwegian, naturally.

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Jeremy Rickard

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