Posted by David Portas on 12/28/05 00:20

Cecil wrote:

> It's blue in SQL Studio but I can't find it in SQL Books on-line. I
> wanted to use it as a field name but don't like using [].
>
> Is it reserved?

It's reserved for the inexperienced who won't bother to come up with a
more useful and informative name. The rest of us know better because
we've had too many bad experiences trying to make sense of other
people's designs with fatuous names like "ID", "NAME", "DATE" or (I kid
you not) "DATA".

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David Portas
SQL Server MVP
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