At 10:33 PM 28/05/2008, Bill Oliver wrote:

>Thanks guys, I appreciate the help.
>
>I can enter a tracker if you think this is a feature we want to add
>to Firebird in the future. I asked my co-worker about this, and he
>put it in the category of "midly annoying". I guess you get used to a
>certain database, and its sql dialect, and then when something is
>missing it bugs you.

Ugh, I could definitely live without this. Even if fate forced me to use MySQL I'd avoid it. In any case, serious SQL shops would (or should) have naming standards, *particularly* for derived columns in views..

./heLen