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HansF <news.hans_at_telus.net> wrote in message news:<JLupd.189555$df2.50302_at_edtnps89>...
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> I suspect that DB2 would also have a lot of extensions if the standard
> didn't follow IBM so closely - and there has been a significant, although
> perhaps co-incidental <g>, history of the standard following IBM's
> well-thought-out suggestions.
Not that there is anything wrong with that! :)
> This is a thorn in virtually every cross-vendor environment. Expanding the
> minimum to 128 characters (or 1024) would permit the idiots who like
> excessivelyLongTableOrObjectNamesThatAreGenerallyMeaningless to be happy.
Count me firmly on the side of
excessiveLongObjectNamesThatHelpMeFindWhereTheHeckIsUpAndDown.
> And it would encourage consistency in design and development environments
> from a baseline SQL perspective because the schools would [inadvertently]
> teach to the standard again instead of SQLServer or MySQL proprietary
> extensions.
Bingo!
> But that, as they say, is just my opinion.
Not just yours... Received on Fri Nov 26 2004 - 01:14:15 CST