Re: Naming Convention for Columns

Same here , only a Swedish Company... Those Wild-n-Crazy Scandenavians ! Jeremy Rickard <Jeremy@SPAM.demon.co.uk> wrote: >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.) Mark Zawadzki, late of Waynesboro, Va. '...there is not a sprig of grass that shoots uninteresting to me.' Thomas Jefferson, 1790.