Deanna makes me drop the underscore because she hates typing them. So
rowid instead of row_id.

-Kevin

On Wed, 21 Jul 2004 11:58:51 -0400, Ben Doom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> We used to do something similar, but ran into problems when we had to
> always alias the id on joins.  Basically, it was a PITA, the aliases
> weren't consistent, you had to remember if you'd used a join, you had to
> change your output should you need to add a join.....
>
> Yeah.  We do ours by tablename, generally, now.
>
> --Ben
>
> Marlon Moyer wrote:
>
> > Warning! : Silly question..
> >
> >
> >
> > I use identity fields in MSSql as my primary key.  I'm getting ready to
> > create a new database and was about to name my primary key field.  In the
> > past, I've based the name on the table name, ie on table orders, order_id.
> > Sometimes that results in some long field names.  So, does anyone see a
> > downside to naming it a simple "id" or maybe "rowid"  or "r_id" or something
> > similar?
> >
> > Marlon
> >
>
>
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