Re: Column naming convention origin?

Anton Versteeg wrote:

> Back in the seventies, (I was doing IMS database design) I saw somewhere
> a naming convention for attributes.
> It was in the form a_b_c_d
> where 'a' was a 1 character code describing the attribute type.
> A - address, text, name
> B - binary
> C - code (often called number like part number)
> D - date
> K - key
> M - amount
> N - number, numeric
> etc.

Sounds like hungarian notation, invented by Charles Simonyi afaik. The context was not database design and columns, but programming and variables.

Maybe that helps.

Boris Stumm Received on Wed Jan 21 2004 - 13:34:34 CET