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> > the poor reader? That's exactly who he is thinking of. He would assume the query was produced by a query tool that has no consideration for humans, and doesn't need to consider the poor reader.
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> > VFPS' view designer hassevaral serious shortcomings. One of them: it adds full name table references even to single-table queries, where they are totally redundant, and only slows down the reader.
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> > -Anders
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> > -Anders
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> I think we are not going to come to a conclusion on this topic. Lets agree to disagree. :)
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> Regards
> Tushar
Absolutely. I realize that you and Mike, two esteemed MVP colleagues, are not merely hypothesizing about the problems with short table aliases in multi-table queries. You've really experienced confusion because of them, and my code samples may have contributed to it. I'm sorry.
-Anders