>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.

Unfortunately, in our difficult DB life here we have a composite mess we use in Crystal Reports (especially) which has to access vfp, Sybase, and Access data simultaneously...so long field names are the easiest way to make fields descriptive to users...