Re: Attributes Names Standards

John Dennis <jdennis_at_netcom.com> wrote:

>I trying to argue a point and need a little help. Some "micro-manager"
>wants to included a column type into the column name like : INT_AGE,
>indicating that AGE column has a type INT. This is crazy! What if
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>BTW, I think the idea of naming a column with the type included is called
>the Hungarian-Notation. I thought that just meant that the column was
>is upper and lower case. The truth?

John... Christopher's answer is right on the mark so be sure to read that one, he even caught the "age" usage correctly. I was going to mention that you shouldn't store "age" as in someone's age in the database. Within one year it will be incorrect.

And just so you know, Hungarian Notation is considered a variable naming convention not a column naming convention and it involves much more than mixed-case names. I use HN all the time, lots of people hate it and some people actually use "foo" as a variable name, it takes all kinds...

tom
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Received on Sat Jan 29 1994 - 04:32:28 CET