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In one project, I had to use camelCase and cargo-cult-Hungarian prefixes in table objects: tblTableName, sVarcharColumn, iIntegerColumn, vViewName and so on. I actaully surprised myself with just how deeply and viscerally I hated this convention. I could no longer easily convert column names into human-readable headings on reports; and the prefixes were just redundant, completely missing the point [1] of Hungarian Notation.

[1] http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa260976%28v=vs.60%2...

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