Gerard,

I will agree that it's good for *you*, but what about your users???? In my opinion, they come first.

Cheers,

Jim N

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>>My vote would be to keep away from *any* naming "convention" for field names.
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>Jim, I now tend to use 3 character prfixws on ALL my apps and find them very useful:
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>- No possibility of duplicTING Field names... not as important now but used to be , particularly in scattering and gathering
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>- In sql, no need to prefix fields
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> I can think of any more advantages right now,....
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>regards,
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>Gerard