I try to avoid anything with underscores, if i have a choice, because my dyslexic fingers will produce a dash 99 times out of a hundred when i attempt to type it out.
 
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On 1/4/06, Marlon Moyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
That one drives me crazy.  I could see if you want to prefix a view
with a 'v' if you really have to, but 'tbl'?.....arrrgh!
Unfortunately, the VB programmer at my company wrote the coding
guidlines and that's the standard.


On 1/3/06, Patrick Branley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The only advantage of using the underscore for table columns is that it
> gives you a clue that the data is raw data from a table an not a formatted
> variable.
>
> eg. date_of_birth = {ts 2006-01-01 00:00:00} but dateOfBirth = "01/01/2006"
>
> the one i find funny tho is where tables are prefixed with 'tbl' in the
> database. Ive never really been confused if something was a view / sp or a
> table so i just dont see a need for this kind of naming convention.
>
> Pat
>
>
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