>> You can make up your own database names, but it has been
>> recommended that you append your Creator ID to each DB name
>> to guarantee uniqueness. (E.g., if your Creator ID is 'Spud',
>> you could have db names like "Names-Spud", "Addresses-Spud", etc.)
>
> The only convention I've seen (and I checked this with DevSupp a while back)
is
> to _prepend_
> your creator to the database name... e.g., SpudNames. Did it change when I
> wasn't looking?
>
Well, as the one who started all this two years ago (with a thread on
"Database names must be unique?" on May 13, 1988), let me pipe in.
That thread had about 50 emails, with a consensus that DevSupp would need to
come up with a naming convention. When our Palm Programming book was
nearing completion later that year, nothing had yet been decided by DevSupp.
Under the theory that *some* standard was better than no standard, we
specified the convention of appending a hyphen and creator ID in the book.
Looking on the Knowledge Base today, I don't see any reference to how to
name databases uniquely. I'd suggest, since there's a de facto standard,
that DevSupp make it official.
Neil
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