Re: Naming that baby!

In article 25593_at_newsgate.sps.mot.com, ttg242_at_chdasic.sps.mot.com (David Thornewill von Essen) writes:
> You're heading in the direction of 'intelligent' keys. They are virtually
> guaranteed come back and bite you one day. For instance in the above proposal
> what if you had both Sun and Sequent machines? I simply call my instances FRED,
> BERT etc and keep a look up table of where they live.

Yes, this problem was thought of when we came up with the scheme. However, that's why we are keeping them short to begin with, so we can expand them as we need.

It's a scheme. Not the best, but we needed something with a little thought behind it to help out with identifying the multiple databases that we are required to keep track of.

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