>>I wouldn't give unknowledgeable users to make any judgements based on field names (even long ones:). It's possible to utilize Field's Comment property to get something really descriptive.
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>But Comments don't appear in the ODBC tables that I've been working with...
>I guess I'm speaking for myself here, too, I like more description, and don't care for strung together abbreviations like Coname_srt...I might mention, though, not to get too carried away with long names, much as like them...we had some Sybase people with names that were ridiculous, something like
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>Company_Item_Description_Including_Accessories :)

Ah, there is whole back-end policy to create e.g. tables which will hold all other tables information: front-end rules/defaults, comments, descriptions, field names etc, e.g. back-end procedure may return not only field values (to texboxes), but also label's captions.