I have seen a lot of discussions about naming conventions over the last year or so. I devised a hybrid from the FM whitepaper and converted 1 of my 35+ files to it a few weeks ago. My smallest table, mind you, but it took quite a while.

This does seem to be quite an undertaking. Has anyone made the leap?

My oldest legacy table(the one I converted) had some real naming problems. Mostly punctuation in the field names and old fields no longer used, the usual.

Let me know your opinion.

Tim

Do you mean naming conventions just for the field names? I have all my globals and key fields named using the Core Solutions standards. I don't think it took very long to do this throughout our entire solution.

I believe my time included determining and removing obsolete fields as well as renaming the fields actually needed.

However my memory could be cluttered with other things.

Sometimes my confusion is self-inflicted, but not always.

I did name all the fields, not just globals & keys, just to be consistent. I guess someday I hope someone might look at it and say, "At least he was consistent."

That's what I did,

Tim

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