I just read an incredible piece of history from David's Blog - "What is Column desSPRkmhBBCreh?", I am still smiling thinking about the ingenuity and cheekiness of the developers.
Apparently, the developers figured out that it takes lesser time to select a bogus column, than it takes to query to system tables, when you have to check if a table exists.
So they had to put in any bogus column - and instead of choosing something like clmInvalid or INVALIDCOLUMN - they chose "desSPRkmhBBCreh", which is after their names. The code reviewer would have had an interesting day :)
You should read it at the source
Guys, you made my day!
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