> Good to know.. I have seen the comment at one time on this list that
> it did conflict with some DBMS.. like I said, I'm not sure which one.
The underscore character is the almost universal word separator in
programming languages, and it's hard to imagine a database that wouldn't
support its use in column and table naming. There did use to be a small
problem in R:Base, if you named a My_Table and tried to do LIST My_Table
R:Base would give you an error. You had to do LIST TABLE My_Table. This is
no longer true.
I generally prefer the upper/lower case method with no underscores.
Fortunately, R:Base preserves the casing of table and column names, some
other database convert them all to lowercase or all to uppercase, making
them much harder to read in listings.
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Larry
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