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Re: SQL Naming Conventions

Blake

The system generates 10-character names if you do nothing - and they are cryptic - something like the 1st 5 characters of the long name plus a string of digits - so you could end up with names like SILLY00001, SILLY00002, SILLY00003

So best to do as you plan, make your own more meaningful short names. That is, as meaningful as they can be in 10 characters.

Vern

On 2/29/2016 12:26 PM, BButterworth@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
Thanks for the tip, Charles. I am checking it out. Yes, if we go with
longer names, then we'll use system names for both tables and columns with
more than 10 characters in the name.

Regards,
Blake
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message: 2
date: Fri, 26 Feb 2016 14:22:24 -0500
from: Charles Wilt
subject: Re: SQL Naming Conventions

Get a copy of this book, Joe Celko's "SQL Programming Style".

Note that for IBM i, current best practice would be to assign a long SQL
name along with a 10 character short name.

Charles


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