Jacob ---

Not bad but I have seen underscores cause problems with ODBC drivers and some other functions a while back (maybe fixed now). Anyway, if you are explicitely referring to the fields by using table.field, then why? I do like to use PK and FK as prefixs to keys.


>In my reading I came across a convention for namining fields in a table that used a 2 letter table identifier followd by an underbar as a prefix to all table field names.
>For example in a Customer table une would finf fields:
>cu_CustCode
>cu_Address
>cu_City
>cu_State
>
>etc. Each table had its fields specified in this manner.
>
>It is clear that there are advantages to this nomenclature in that you can easily identify and distinguish a field in a table from memory variable. There are also advantages in SQL statements.
>
>Doing it however is somewhat of a pain and I am wondering if it is worth the effort.
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>Does anyone have any experience in using this naming approach?