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> From: James Rich > > So what if 10^36 is a large number? Do you name your files 0000000001 and > 0000000002? Of course not. The point is to have names that make good > sense. How many sensible english descriptive phrases can be made with 10 > characters? Not very many, and that is the problem. The problem is not > running out of unique character combinations, it is running out of > sensible descriptive contractions. No reason to have "meaningful" names on libraries or files. Even trying to make field names contain information is questionable at best. Application programmers shouldn't be looking at table and column names anyway, they should be encapsulated in servers. You want pretty names? Use long names in your procedures, parameters and API data structures. If you would learn to keep your hands off the database, you'd write much more flexible code. :) Joe
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