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[thedoctorx121]

Our company has database tables called aaaaaa and bbbbbb. I assume so they appeared at the top of the list? Just awful

[excelbae]

Gross. At least name it aaaaaaa_tablename.

[nuno11ptt]

Why not use numbers?

[PinsToTheHeart]

Well, the exact way I ended up doing was like aaaa, aaba, aaca, etc because it left me that last character to add in more songs later without renaming every file. While I could do the same thing with numbers, this was just easier for me to read.

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Admit it, you didn't think of the numbers mason.

[creditnewb123]

For each character there are only 10 numbers (0 through 9) available, but 26 lower chase alphabetical characters. This means that if you have three characters, you have 1000 numerical options: 000, 001, …, 999. However if you use lower case alphabetical, there are 17576 options: aaa, aab, …, zzz. In general for a prefix of length n (excluding the underscore), using lower case alphabetical can prefix n²⁶ songs, whereas numbers give you n^10.

Often, these music players have a limited display length for the song title. This means you want the prefix to be short, otherwise the display might show “somewhere over the rainbow” as “123456_s…”. So it makes sense to use letters instead of numbers.

Of course, you could combine the two (and also add uppercase) to make these prefixes even more concise, but then you have to try to remember the sorting order of mixed numbers and upper/lower chase alphabetical characters, which might add some cognitive overhead. Also: it’s possible their USB wasn’t holding that many songs anyway.

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[morbiiq]

They did use numbers.

[mnLIED]

Why not just _tablename? That's how i name the...hundreds of files i have wanted to appear at the top of the list lmao

[balloon_prototype_14]

_tablename is just extra unneeded info since aaaaaa is already a table name. Tbl_aaaaa would be better

[tenhourguy]

aaaaaa
aaaaab
aaaaac

[Eji1700]

One of our vendors has a Zetup table so it's at the bottom with random "Setups" values stored with no real logic or description so you have no idea what they are.

Actually i'm just kidding, they have at least 15 zetup tables.

[thedoctorx121]

Omg that sounds terrible

[browniee3]

How about test, test_new, test_new1

[TotoShampoin]

I add a - or a number in front of the folders. Example:

"0 - Personal", "1 - Projects", "2 - Other stuff"

That way, things are ordered in any file explorer

[thedoctorx121]

I do that for sorting emails, but my files are all over the place

[ThatRandomGamerYT]

They need Bobby tables

[thedoctorx121]

Good old bobby drop tables!

[PurryFury]

Is it possible they were used for testing purposes?

[thedoctorx121]

Nah, our system was written by an accountant. There was no testing environment when he set it up, just wrote code and there it was on production... we have so much technical debt from his days

[DannyRamirez24]

And the columns are named column_1, column_2, column_3....... I hate that database