On Aug 25, 2:35 am, "Tony Toews [MVP]" wrote:
To me, having to use brackets all the time is *much* worse of
a maintenance issue than translating the coder-friendly names into
human-friendly names.

Not at all. If it was a PITA putting in square brackets then I would
have noticed. It's not.

I too find it a PITA to add square brackets (a proprietary feature;
Standard SQL uses double quotes). Are you the only person who will
*ever* write SQL against your mdb's? I always consider the person who
will 'inherit' my code as well as the current and future users. What
about when you ask for help in the 'groups g?

Jamie.

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