John W. Colby
jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com
Thu Jun 23 13:30:17 CDT 2005
Yep, it sure does. And of course the last developer to touch the db is responsible for ALL problems. John W. Colby www.ColbyConsulting.com Contribute your unused CPU cycles to a good cause: http://folding.stanford.edu/ -----Original Message----- From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of John Bartow Sent: Thursday, June 23, 2005 1:49 PM To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving' Subject: RE: [AccessD] Just Checking.... Ee-gads, sounds like a lot of work ahead :-( -----Original Message----- From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Stuart McLachlan Sent: Wednesday, June 22, 2005 4:07 PM To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving Subject: RE: [AccessD] Just Checking.... On 22 Jun 2005 at 11:27, John W. Colby wrote: > ROTFL. Yea, I am getting old. > > I am about to launch a field naming convention discussion so look out. > ;-) > I've just been asked to taske over some apps which were developed in-house by a certain organisation in PNG. Most of them have a table called "MAIN TABLE" which is, believe it or not the main table used for storing data. So far I have also come across fields named DATE and NAME as well as several fields with 40-50 character fieldnames comprising multiple words separated by spaces. -- Stuart -- AccessD mailing list AccessD at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com -- AccessD mailing list AccessD at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com