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Message Posted: Mon, 03 Apr 2006 @ 20:11:11 GMT
| Subj: | | Column Naming |
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| From: | | Howard, Jack |
Anyone use mixed case / no spaces as their column naming convention? Using a simple column name such as "Message Address ID" implemented as
MessageAddressID (mixed case/ no spaces) works as long as mixed case is always preserved. The horror is when the column name is not respected by
some other tool/technology and it translates mixed case column names to all upper case (e.g., MESSAGEADDRESSID). Some years ago I did a test and
found one vendor in my ex-company's stack that did the dreaded conversion. Although the technology functioned perfectly, the readability was
"difficult."
If you are using mixed case column names are you happy with that convention today? My leaning is to mixed case since it conserves space in the
column name length. But the upper case display without possibility of parole is a dreadful threat. But, perhaps this issue is now resolved since
the vendors have all released several versions since my original analysis?
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