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  3. October 2006

RE: Table Definitions DDS or SQL?

Your correct. Programmers with iSeries background have the 10 character
limit deeply imbedded in the subconscious and limit themselves to 10
without thinking and create a table named EMPMASTER.  Programmers from
other platforms are the ones more likely to create a table named 
"Employee Master File" which might then become "Empl0001".


rob@xxxxxxxxx 10/6/2006 12:33:25 PM >>>

I think he is talking about the situations where no one counted the 
characters in the first place and did a straight
CREATE TABLE IAMMORETHAN10...

Rob Berendt

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