Greetings Everyone,
In the LO Getting Started Guide 6.0, chapter 8, it says "Field names are
required to be single words." ("Step 4:" pg 247, near the bottom.)
I searched elsewhere for confirmation but found nothing. This was a concern
because I, a noob using Base's graphic interface (GUI), have made several
tables with multi-word field names. (I'm using HSQL, if that matters for this.)
I posted to the LO help forum for confirmation. I was informed that this is
incorrect, but it is advisable. They did not elaborate further. I spent more
than a couple hours trying to understand this discrepancy.
As a DB noob, I would guess that field names in SQL must be a single word,
though not in the GUI? (I am guessing that this could be a problem if one tried
to migrate the DB to a different engine, or something like that?) As I
understand, an underscore used in place of a space poses no issues.
Should this rule be restated to "Field names should be single words*.
Multi-word field names, when desired, can use an underscore ( _ ) to separate
the words."?
* Maybe a short reason why should be included, such as "to avoid problems when
using advanced features / migrating your database to a different application"?
Also, since this is my very first post, I'd like to take a moment to thank
everyone here on the LO Documentation team. It's been a while since I've done
anything with a database, and I've learned several things just from chapter 8
in the Getting Started Guide. I hope I can help contribute to the project.
Sincerely,
Jeramee
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