Re: [GENERAL] column names and dollar sign

On 18/05/17 11:32, Neil Anderson wrote:
>>> "Armand Pirvu (home)" <armand.pirvu@gmail.com> writes:
>>>> Ran into the following statement
>>>> CREATE TABLE test(
>>>>       Date$ date,
>>>>       Month_Number$ int,
>>>>       Month$ varchar(10),
>>>>       Year$ int
>>>> );
> A strange naming convention. It has a whiff of Visual Basic Type
> Characters about it,
>
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/articles/visual-basic/programming-guide/language-features/data-types/type-characters.
>
> Any chance there is a connection there?
>
Variables ending in '$' date back to at least the early days of BASIC -
long before the spectre of Microsoft loomed large, let alone 'Visual Basic'!


Cheers,
Gavin