Re: Naming Convention for Columns

Same here , only a Swedish Company...
Those Wild-n-Crazy Scandenavians !
Jeremy Rickard <Jeremy_at_SPAM.demon.co.uk> wrote:

>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.
 

>--
>Jeremy Rickard
 

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