Re: Column naming convention origin?
From: Anton Versteeg <anton_versteeg_at_nnll.iibbmm.com>
Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2004 18:08:00 +0100
Message-ID: <40100370.4030200_at_nnll.iibbmm.com>
Thanks for the pointer.
It looks similar but I don't think it is quite same.
He used the typing for variable names in C source code.
Anyway Simonyi was a microsoft programmer and in the time frame I was referring to (1976) that company didn't exist yet.
Boris Stumm wrote:
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Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2004 18:08:00 +0100
Message-ID: <40100370.4030200_at_nnll.iibbmm.com>
Thanks for the pointer.
It looks similar but I don't think it is quite same.
He used the typing for variable names in C source code.
Anyway Simonyi was a microsoft programmer and in the time frame I was referring to (1976) that company didn't exist yet.
Boris Stumm wrote:
was not database design and columns, but programming and variables. Maybe that helps. Boris StummAnton 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
-- Anton Versteeg IBM Certified DB2 Specialist IBM Netherlands
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