>>As a preference... in your field names... do you include the type as part of the description...? even if you are using Hungarian notation...? such as...
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>>tstarttime vs tstart
>>dduedate vs ddue
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>My personal pref is meaningfull names or abreviations never exceeding then 10 chars in lenght.
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>In this case I would simply call them
>'StartTime'
>'DueDate'
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>But Social Security Number wld have been something like;
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>SocSecNo
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>When you cross 10 char limit, you are inn for all kind of surprises.

What surprises have you seen? I remember Andy Neil, who I respect a lot, saying that way back in VFP 3, but ass-umed any long name issues were cleaned up by now. There is no 10 character limit documented (that I know about), which is why I ask the question.

UPDATE: Well, there is the obvious limit that the DBF has to be in a DBC to use long field names. I meant other than that.