RE: Hungarian Notation [Was Re: Too many aliases]

2011-08-09 Thread Hal�sz S�ndor
2011/08/08 10:25 -0400, Jerry Schwartz I was a reluctant convert, and still don't use Hungarian notation consistently; but in something like MS Access, where you might want to associate a label with a field, things like "lblCompany" and "txtCompany" make a lot of sense. I forg

Re: Hungarian Notation [Was Re: Too many aliases]

2011-08-08 Thread Hal�sz S�ndor
2011/08/08 00:13 -0600, Mike Diehl Well, I can see this being useful in assembly language, or strongly-typed, non-OO languages. But I was asking specifically about SQL! We know from context that customers is a table and it makes no sense at all to prefix a type to it in order to

RE: Hungarian Notation [Was Re: Too many aliases]

2011-08-08 Thread Jerry Schwartz
bytesmiths.com; mysql@lists.mysql.com >Subject: RE: Hungarian Notation [Was Re: Too many aliases] > > >Jan- >the upside is you dont have to look up a variable to know what type it is: >zVariable is Null termed string >bVariable is boolean >nVariable is an Integer >fVariable is

Re: Hungarian Notation [Was Re: Too many aliases]

2011-08-07 Thread Mike Diehl
On Saturday 06 August 2011 10:58:43 am Jan Steinman wrote: > > From: Johnny Withers > > > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hungarian_notation Well, I can see this being useful in assembly language, or strongly-typed, non-OO languages. But I was asking specifically about SQL! When will this EVER

Re: Hungarian Notation [Was Re: Too many aliases]

2011-08-07 Thread David Lerer
y Cc: mysql@lists.mysql.com Sent: Sun Aug 07 19:03:43 2011 Subject: Re: Hungarian Notation [Was Re: Too many aliases] I despise this sort of notation, and have instead adopted what have cheerfully named Hungarian Suffix notation, the reason being Signal-To-Noise ratio. Instead of prefacing everything

Re: Hungarian Notation [Was Re: Too many aliases]

2011-08-07 Thread Arthur Fuller
I despise this sort of notation, and have instead adopted what have cheerfully named Hungarian Suffix notation, the reason being Signal-To-Noise ratio. Instead of prefacing everything with some form of prefix, just do the opposite: Customer_tbl Customer_Dead_boo Customer_DOB_date Customer_qs (that

RE: Hungarian Notation [Was Re: Too many aliases]

2011-08-06 Thread Martin Gainty
..Shawshank Redemption > Subject: Hungarian Notation [Was Re: Too many aliases] > From: j...@bytesmiths.com > Date: Sat, 6 Aug 2011 09:58:43 -0700 > To: mysql@lists.mysql.com > > > From: Johnny Withers > > > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hungarian_notation > >

Re: Too many aliases

2011-08-06 Thread Johnny Withers
It's simple... ttwwadi is the only reason I assume. Sent from my iPad On Aug 5, 2011, at 2:39 PM, (Hal�sz S�ndor) h...@tbbs.net wrote: > 2011/08/04 10:21 -0500, Johnny Withers > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hungarian_notation > > > On Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 9:41 AM, Mike Diehl

Hungarian Notation [Was Re: Too many aliases]

2011-08-06 Thread Jan Steinman
> From: Johnny Withers > > 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

Re: Too many aliases

2011-08-06 Thread Hal�sz S�ndor
2011/08/04 10:21 -0500, Johnny Withers http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hungarian_notation On Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 9:41 AM, Mike Diehl wrote > 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 >

Re: Too many aliases

2011-08-04 Thread Johnny Withers
; Sent: Thursday, August 04, 2011 8:26 AM > > To: r...@grib.nl > > Cc: mysql@lists.mysql.com > > Subject: Re: Too many aliases > > > > >>>> 2011/08/03 12:46 +0200, Rik Wasmus >>>> > > > > But the > > main thing is it helps

Re: Too many aliases

2011-08-04 Thread Mike Diehl
d. > > -Original Message- > From: h...@tbbs.net [mailto:h...@tbbs.net] > Sent: Thursday, August 04, 2011 8:26 AM > To: r...@grib.nl > Cc: mysql@lists.mysql.com > Subject: Re: Too many aliases > > >>>> 2011/08/03 12:46 +0200, Rik Wasmus >>>>

RE: Too many aliases

2011-08-04 Thread Jerry Schwartz
>-Original Message- >From: David Lerer [mailto:dle...@us.univision.com] >Sent: Wednesday, August 03, 2011 10:25 AM >To: mysql@lists.mysql.com >Subject: RE: Too many aliases > >I rarely use aliases (unless rarely required in self-join queries). >Yes, the column name

RE: Too many aliases

2011-08-04 Thread David Lerer
...@grib.nl Cc: mysql@lists.mysql.com Subject: Re: Too many aliases >>>> 2011/08/03 12:46 +0200, Rik Wasmus >>>> But the main thing is it helps to distinguish tables in joins having the same table more then once (and of course results from subqueries etc.): SELECT first.* FROM t

Re: Too many aliases

2011-08-04 Thread Hal�sz S�ndor
2011/08/03 12:46 +0200, Rik Wasmus But the main thing is it helps to distinguish tables in joins having the same table more then once (and of course results from subqueries etc.): SELECT first.* FROM tablename first LEFT JOIN tablename second ONfirst.some_id = second.some_id

RE: Too many aliases

2011-08-03 Thread shawn wilson
On Aug 3, 2011 9:24 AM, "David Lerer" wrote: > > I rarely use aliases (unless rarely required in self-join queries). > When I have that option, I create unique columns by prefixing every > table (and its objects) with a number. > Something like: > Create table T1234_Employee > (C1234_Employee_id

RE: Too many aliases

2011-08-03 Thread David Lerer
:47 AM To: mysql@lists.mysql.com Subject: Re: Too many aliases > >>>> 2011/08/02 12:11 +0530, Adarsh Sharma >>>> > > select p.* from table A p, B q where p.id=q.id > > or > > select p.* from table B q , A p where q.id=p.id > <<<<&l

Re: Too many aliases

2011-08-03 Thread Rik Wasmus
> 2011/08/02 12:11 +0530, Adarsh Sharma > > select p.* from table A p, B q where p.id=q.id > > or > > select p.* from table B q , A p where q.id=p.id > > Why do people constantly change table names for queries, although, as here, > it gain them nothing? It often makes for less

Too many aliases

2011-08-02 Thread Hal�sz S�ndor
2011/08/02 12:11 +0530, Adarsh Sharma select p.* from table A p, B q where p.id=q.id or select p.* from table B q , A p where q.id=p.id Why do people constantly change table names for queries, although, as here, it gain them nothing? It often makes for less clarity (for which