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Field Prefix
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From
23/09/2003 10:19:13
Hilmar Zonneveld
Independent Consultant
Cochabamba, Bolivia
 
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Forum:
Visual FoxPro
Category:
Databases,Tables, Views, Indexing and SQL syntax
Title:
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
00831460
Message ID:
00831480
Views:
21
I don't personally like using type prefixes for field-names. But I have seen several others who do use them. I suggest you consider what you like better.

>I am creating a new database should I prefix the fields with their type e.g.
>
>cName
>cAddress
>dDob
>etc
>
>or just use the field name e.g.
>
>Name
>Address
>Dob
>etc
>
>Any opinions welcome.
>
>
>Thanks.
>
>John
Difference in opinions hath cost many millions of lives: for instance, whether flesh be bread, or bread be flesh; whether whistling be a vice or a virtue; whether it be better to kiss a post, or throw it into the fire... (from Gulliver's Travels)
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