Re: Column naming convention origin?

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:

>Anton Versteeg wrote:
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>>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.
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>Sounds like hungarian notation, invented by Charles Simonyi afaik. The context
>was not database design and columns, but programming and variables.
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>Maybe that helps.
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>Boris Stumm
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