Agreed, there is a lot I disagree with from the article, but this is the only one that my mind lashed out at as simply being WRONG. The only time I have seen nu

Agreed, there is a lot I disagree with from the article, but this is the only one that my mind lashed out at as simply being WRONG. The only time I have seen numbers used on aliases in 10+ years is on self-joins. Even on self-joins I prefer to see something in the alias that identifies why that particular join is part of the query, but the reality is that such a descriptive name would often be so long that you're more likely to see a numeric suffix.