From: Jan Steinman Date: August 6 2011 4:58pm Subject: Hungarian Notation [Was Re: Too many aliases] List-Archive: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql/225497 Message-Id: <811550A8-E3F0-4F82-9E2C-F66BE4E152BE@Bytesmiths.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1084) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > From: Johnny Withers >=20 > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hungarian_notation "The original Hungarian notation... was invented by Charles Simonyi... = who later became Chief Architect at Microsoft." Ugh. That explains a lot! The only time I let types intrude on names is with booleans, which I try = to name with a state-of-being verb, such as "has_paid", "is_member", = "has_children", etc. > On Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 9:41 AM, Mike Diehl = wrote: >=20 >> Well, while we're on the subject of SQL style, can anyone tell me why = I'm >> always seeing people prefixing the name of a table with something = like >> "tbl?" ---------------- You can't do anything about the length of your life, but you can do = something about its width and depth. -- H. L. Mencken :::: Jan Steinman, EcoReality Co-op ::::