Re: Naming Convention for Columns

In article <3505ad61.266543@read.news.global.net.uk>, Keith Boulton <boulkenospam@globalnet.co.uk> writes >Having said that, I did work for an organisation once which had DB2 >naming conventions where table and column names were limited to 8 >characters. The first three characters were a system mnemonic, >followed by a five digit number i.e. select xyz00024, xyz00057 from >xyz11003. That's nothing! I worked for an international (US based) company which had one system with 4 character column names. These were abbreviations of the full attribute names - in Norwegian, naturally. -- Jeremy Rickard (To email, change "SPAM" to "jbdr" in address.)